Best Of Thao Thai's "Banyan Moon"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Banyan Moon by Thao Thai. This veiled wonderland, where nothing is what it seems and everyone is just atrociously polite. I feel that I will never be able to grasp the undercurrents beneath those pretty words. Not for the first time, I miss my grandmother's frankness; even my mother's curtness, which I understood—or at least felt prepared for. p. 23 She scurries off, this daughter of mine, her hair bouncing as she moves, so quick and capable. Serving at others' pleasure. I have wanted so many things for her, but I'm no witch. She has to claim them for herself. Perhaps Ann is the only one of us to seize her own fate, to lead with will, rather than by another man's promise. p. 30 He loved her more than a person should love another. There was something reckless about it. p. 34 What's left of me, after he has taken it all? p. 41 He looks so helpless that I have to fight the urge to comfort him. I realize that Noah has ...
