“My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love’s footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else – until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.”

“My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love’s footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else – until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.”

— Yu Hua