Madeleine Thien Quotes

I Assumed," Ai-ming Told Me, "that When Big Mother's Stories Finished, Life Would Continue And I Would Go Back To Being Myself. But It Wasn't True. The Stories Got Longer And Longer, And I Got Smaller And Smaller. When I Told My Grandmother This, She Laughed Her Head Off. She Said, 'But That's How The World Is, Isn't It? Or Did You Think You Were Bigger Than The World?

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