Quotes by Shan Sa

About Shan Sa:

Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni (born October 26, 1972 in Beijing, China), a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside of France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (a prize voted by secondary school students). Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress (2006). She was awarded chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in July 2009 and chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in May 2011.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving...

Shan Sa

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Shan Sa

In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other ...

Shan Sa

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Shan Sa

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

Shan Sa

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Shan Sa

I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge." -the girl who played go

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Politicians are better liars than writers.

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I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

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I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

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I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

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Author Bio

  • NameShan Sa
  • DescriptionAuthor
  • BornOctober 26, 1972
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAuthor
  • Works;
  • AwardsPrix Goncourt Du Premier Roman; Prix Goncourt Des Lycéens