Xiaolu Guo Quotes

Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.’ But I couldn’t help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person’s entire life.

Somehow, in the novel format, I don’t really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They’re less subtle I would say.

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That’s what they have every day.

I don’t feel naked around you anymore.

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

I do think there will be a better understanding between the two sides – East and West. And eventually, the so-called two sides will disappear, and there will only be the conflict between those with power and those without it.

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.