"The agarwood gave off its perfume, and the vine oil clouded over, invaded by the ghosts of other lives, from the time…"

"The Book of Perilous Dishes"

"And I understood that not only was I fated to see them again, searching for each other with the same looks which clea…"

"The love is happiness to be only a rotting cloth in the wound of a stranger."

"Generous people are praised in books, but in everyday life they have nothing to show for it. The more grasping a pers…"

"For in any person there is a ball of bitterness and desire, sometimes just lightly tickling like a butterfly, but in …"

"Once he had turned the steak onto the other side, the madness began, as in a soul in love. Everything that followed a…"

"Last year, sometime in November, I noticed a book in the window of the Sadoveanu"

"At last, she can sit down with the same emotion and anticipation felt before each meeting. The bed squeaks, recognize…"

"My mum and I fought a lot. She worried that my chosen career was unreliable and wouldn’t take me anywhere."