"We are defined by the places we hold in the web of othersâ€™ lives."

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Source : Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

Ken Liu

“Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.”
“I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved”
“Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.”
“God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.”

Source : Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “God's Story”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to try to resolve an intractable religious divide some 1,500 years in the making.”
“The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
“When I was a kid I was very particular. I was actually beyond particular. I would iron my money and spray it with Polo cologne.”
“What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.”

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