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When the Sea Turned to Silver
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"When the Sea Turned to Silver" Quotes

A young girl goes on a magical journey to rescue her kidnapped grandmother and discovers the power of storytelling along the way.

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Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

Grace Lin

storiesmemoryeternity

If you want to change the world, you must first learn about it.

Grace Lin

changelearning

But that's the thing about stories, though. They go on and on, even after you've reached the end of the page.

Grace Lin

storiescontinuation

Sometimes, we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more often than not, we must do battle where we are standing.

Grace Lin

choicesrevolutionbattles

The best way to live is to be like water, for water benefits all things and goes against none of them. It provides for all people and even cleanses those places a man is loath to go. In this way it is just like Tao.

Grace Lin

lifewisdomtao

There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away.

Grace Lin

beautypersistence

All things are born, live, and die. But stories, they change in the telling. They make truths of things that were not truths before.

Grace Lin

storiestruthchange

When the sea turned to silver, the world turned to gold.

Grace Lin

transformationvalue

What is broken can always be fixed. Whatever is lost can always be found.

Grace Lin

hoperesilience

There are always mysteries. They are everywhere, and they are always waiting to be found.

Grace Lin

mysterydiscovery