“When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: "So you're here, too?"”

—  Eileen Chang

10. "Love" (p. 79)
Liuyan [《流言》] (1968)

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