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Top 30 Yangsze Choo Quotes (2025 Update)

Yangsze Choo Quote: “Chinese say that good things come in pairs, such as the character for double happiness, cut out of red paper and pasted on doors for weddings, and the two stone lions that guard temples.”

1. “Chinese say that good things come in pairs, such as the character for double happiness, cut out of red paper and pasted on doors for weddings, and the two stone lions that guard temples.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto.”

2. “Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Going to the wet market had always been one of my favorite errands. You could buy almost anything there: piles of red and green chilies, live chicks and quail, green lotus seed pods that resembled shower sprinklers. There were fresh sides of pork, salted duck eggs, and baskets of glossy river fish. You could eat breakfast, too, at little stalls serving steaming bowls of noodles and crispy fritters.”

3. “Going to the wet market had always been one of my favorite errands. You could buy almost anything there: piles of red and green chilies, live chicks and quail, green lotus seed pods that resembled shower sprinklers. There were fresh sides of pork, salted duck eggs, and baskets of glossy river fish. You could eat breakfast, too, at little stalls serving steaming bowls of noodles and crispy fritters.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.”

4. “Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future.”

5. “The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another’s superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.”

6. “It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another’s superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Our journey back was subdued. I could see that Amah wanted to ask me what the medium had whispered, but she was too proud to speak of our private affairs in front of the rickshaw.”

7. “Our journey back was subdued. I could see that Amah wanted to ask me what the medium had whispered, but she was too proud to speak of our private affairs in front of the rickshaw.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “When Er Lang comes for his answer, I will tell him that I’ve always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride.”

8. “When Er Lang comes for his answer, I will tell him that I’ve always thought he was a monster. And that I want to be his bride.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them. Each ghost I had encountered had a story that it was only too ready to share. Maybe it got lonely in the afterlife. Or perhaps those who lingered longest were the ones who could not bear to give up.”

9. “The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them. Each ghost I had encountered had a story that it was only too ready to share. Maybe it got lonely in the afterlife. Or perhaps those who lingered longest were the ones who could not bear to give up.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better”.”

10. “If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better”.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “I took Amah’s thin hand in mine. This hand had dried my tears and spanked me as a child. It had combed my hair and spoon-fed me. Now it was spotted with liver marks, and the knuckles and joints swollen. I wasn’t sure how old she was, but I felt a surge of melancholy affection. Sooner than later she would need someone to care for her.”

11. “I took Amah’s thin hand in mine. This hand had dried my tears and spanked me as a child. It had combed my hair and spoon-fed me. Now it was spotted with liver marks, and the knuckles and joints swollen. I wasn’t sure how old she was, but I felt a surge of melancholy affection. Sooner than later she would need someone to care for her.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “In Cantonese, two was a good number because it made a pair. Three was also good because it was a homophone for sang, or life. Four, of course, was bad because it sounded like death. Five was good again because it made a complete set, not just of the Confucian Virtues, but also for the elements of wood, fire, water, metal, and earth.”

12. “In Cantonese, two was a good number because it made a pair. Three was also good because it was a homophone for sang, or life. Four, of course, was bad because it sounded like death. Five was good again because it made a complete set, not just of the Confucian Virtues, but also for the elements of wood, fire, water, metal, and earth.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them.”

13. “The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Most of all, though, I wanted my mother to forgive me, and bless me, and tell me everything would be all right, just as she had when I was little, and there were only the two of us in the whole wide world. But perhaps that was part of not being a child anymore.”

14. “Most of all, though, I wanted my mother to forgive me, and bless me, and tell me everything would be all right, just as she had when I was little, and there were only the two of us in the whole wide world. But perhaps that was part of not being a child anymore.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened.”

15. “One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life.”

16. “We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “It was strange to think that power in this world belonged to old men and young women.”

17. “It was strange to think that power in this world belonged to old men and young women.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Amah was always wary of voicing misfortunes, fearing that to do so would only make them come true.”

18. “Amah was always wary of voicing misfortunes, fearing that to do so would only make them come true.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities.”

19. “For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “She never seemed bothered by her ability to embrace two opposing things at once. I sometimes wished that I had that blithe assurance. My father made the dry observation that Amah had no difficulty reconciling her viewpoints because she had learned everything as custom dictated and that was both her bondage and her solace. I felt this was a little harsh. Amah did think about things – just not the same sorts that Father did. Her mind ricocheted between practicality and superstition.”

20. “She never seemed bothered by her ability to embrace two opposing things at once. I sometimes wished that I had that blithe assurance. My father made the dry observation that Amah had no difficulty reconciling her viewpoints because she had learned everything as custom dictated and that was both her bondage and her solace. I felt this was a little harsh. Amah did think about things – just not the same sorts that Father did. Her mind ricocheted between practicality and superstition.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “We were a chocolate-box family, I thought. Brightly wrapped on the outside and oozing sticky darkness within.”

21. “We were a chocolate-box family, I thought. Brightly wrapped on the outside and oozing sticky darkness within.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful”.”

22. “The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful”.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Women had little security other than jewelry, so even the poorest among us sported gold chains, earrings, and rings as their insurance.”

23. “Women had little security other than jewelry, so even the poorest among us sported gold chains, earrings, and rings as their insurance.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The earth on the grave was red clay from the tin ore that had made this region’s name.”

24. “The earth on the grave was red clay from the tin ore that had made this region’s name.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “The Ji in my name wasn’t commonly used for girls. It was the character for zhi, or knowledge, one of the five Confucian Virtues. The others were benevolence, righteousness, order, and integrity.”

25. “The Ji in my name wasn’t commonly used for girls. It was the character for zhi, or knowledge, one of the five Confucian Virtues. The others were benevolence, righteousness, order, and integrity.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “Unconsciously, Amah’s hand smoothed my hair, falling back into the old rhythms of childhood as though I were really only knee-high and had come to seek solace in her lap. “And now you. You are my little girl too.” We clung to each other like two shipwrecked survivors.”

26. “Unconsciously, Amah’s hand smoothed my hair, falling back into the old rhythms of childhood as though I were really only knee-high and had come to seek solace in her lap. “And now you. You are my little girl too.” We clung to each other like two shipwrecked survivors.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “You want promises of success, assurances that all will be well? I don’t do that. Ask your amah here. That’s why I’m the real deal.”

27. “You want promises of success, assurances that all will be well? I don’t do that. Ask your amah here. That’s why I’m the real deal.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “His case has certain indicators of bribery and coercion, part of a pattern that has surfaced recently. In other words, one of the Nine Judges of Hell is probably corrupt. Oh, they all are, to some degree,” he added. “But it would be well to discover how serious it is, who is raising money and recruiting soldiers. For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities. Don’t you remember the eruption of Krakatau?”

28. “His case has certain indicators of bribery and coercion, part of a pattern that has surfaced recently. In other words, one of the Nine Judges of Hell is probably corrupt. Oh, they all are, to some degree,” he added. “But it would be well to discover how serious it is, who is raising money and recruiting soldiers. For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities. Don’t you remember the eruption of Krakatau?”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “A keramat animal is a sacred beast, a creature with the ability to come and go like a phantom, trampling sugarcane or raiding livestock with impunity. It’s always distinguished by some peculiarity, such as a missing tusk or a rare albino color. But the most common indicator is a withered or maimed foot.”

29. “A keramat animal is a sacred beast, a creature with the ability to come and go like a phantom, trampling sugarcane or raiding livestock with impunity. It’s always distinguished by some peculiarity, such as a missing tusk or a rare albino color. But the most common indicator is a withered or maimed foot.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.”

30. “I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “That’s where the were tigers live, the harriman radian who change their shapes. Some people say that they’re beasts possessed by the souls of dead people.”

31. “That’s where the were tigers live, the harriman radian who change their shapes. Some people say that they’re beasts possessed by the souls of dead people.”

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Yangsze Choo Quote: “This practice of arranging the marriage of a dead person was uncommon, usually held in order to placate a spirit. A deceased concubine who had produced a son might be officially married to elevate her status to a wife. Or two lovers who died tragically might be united after death. That much I knew. But to marry the living to the dead was a rare and, indeed, dreadful occurrence.”

32. “This practice of arranging the marriage of a dead person was uncommon, usually held in order to placate a spirit. A deceased concubine who had produced a son might be officially married to elevate her status to a wife. Or two lovers who died tragically might be united after death. That much I knew. But to marry the living to the dead was a rare and, indeed, dreadful occurrence.”

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