"Snow Falling on Cedars" Quotes
A Japanese-American man stands trial for murder on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, uncovering long-held secrets and racial tensions in the community.
fiction | 404 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
The heart of any other, because it has a will, would remain forever mysterious.
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can.
The smell of salt, wet cedar boughs, and the oily creosote of the piers was as sharp as if it were only yesterday.
The universe was a whirlpool of accidents. But in the midst of that unknowing, in the human dimensions of the event, a few men looked out for one another.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said.
Memories are stored in the heart and soul, not in the mind.
Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
The world is full of tricks and riddles. And sometimes we can learn something new from them.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
The universe was a vast and immense ocean, and the world was a tiny, fragile raft floating upon it.
