Listen to this article“Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don’t want to live, you have to ask them first.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
“It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
“No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there’s nothing that will keep him alive.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
“As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
“The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don’t want her.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
“It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.”
― Yu Hua, To Live
