Shan Sa Quotes

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Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle...

Shan Sa

Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

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Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

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Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

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I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

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Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Shan Sa

Shan Sa

Shan Sa

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Born: October 26, 1972 (age 54)

Bio: Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni, a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress.

Known for:

The Girl Who Played Go (2001)
Empress (2006)
Alexander and Alestria (2008)
Gate of Celestial Peace (1997)
Girl Who Played Go Proof (2003)

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