"The Years of Rice and Salt" Quotes
An alternate history novel exploring the cycles of rebirth and the impact of human civilization through ten different lifetimes.
fiction | 763 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
No matter what the historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before the Change.'
The only human institution that rejects progress is the cemetery.
Time is the only true unit of measure.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.
There is a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no need to worry about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.
The future is just a collection of memories that hasn't happened yet.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of their ancestors in their blood.
Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
