Quotes from Can Xue

To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn't be any incoming calls.

The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it's like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there's nothing lovelier.

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

The poplars were a symbol. It was only the light from behind the poplars that made their silhouettes visible.

The bird still didn't move. Mrs. Yun thought it had discerned her deepest, innermost ideas. Actually, she herself didn't know exactly what those ideas were.

When I write, I intentionally erase any knowledge from my mind.

His wrinkled face showed the changes he had seen.

He lives in his memories

If you believed in something like this, it was true; if you didn't believe in it, it wasn't.

After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom.

The old woman finally went bankrupt. She had made so much money every day, how could she have gone bankrupt? I didn't get it.

At that moment the rooster was a tiny, light brown, fluffy ball. No clues to future developments could yet be discerned. All existence went along happily under the will of heaven. With the accelerating motion of nonexistence, unstable embarrassing details gradually displaced themselves.