Yu Hua's classic quotations from "Alive"
1. Don't be confused. Even dead people want to come back to life. You, a living person, cannot die.
2. People live for life itself, not for anything other than living.
3. This steel can make three artillery shells, all of which will be hit in Taiwan. One will hit Chiang Kai-shek’s bed, one will hit the table where Chiang Kai-shek eats, and one will hit the sheep shed of Chiang Kai-shek’s family. .
4. The stretcher-carriers all crouched and ran to find an open space in front of us. They shouted one, two, three. When they shouted three, they turned over the stretcher and threw the injured patient like a garbage dump. I don't care about the ground.
5. They lack enthusiasm for their experiences and only remember a few scattered points as if they were hearsay. Even these scattered points are memories outside themselves and can be expressed in one or two sentences. everything they thought.
6. I knew he wouldn’t fight me anymore, but what he said was like a dull knife cutting my neck. My head couldn’t fall off, but it hurt like hell.
7. Women, when their temper strikes, they will do anything and say anything.
8. Even if I chew the rotten bones in your ancestral graves, I won’t ask you for food.
9. But I have never met someone as unforgettable as Fugui. He is so clear about his own experience and can tell so wonderfully about how he ages. Such old people are really hard to come across in the countryside. Perhaps their hard life has damaged their memories. They usually appear dull when faced with the past, and often try to explain away the past with a bewildered smile.
10. No matter how big a person’s life is, if he wants to die, he will never survive.
11. In the past, our ancestors of the Xu family just raised a chicken. When the chicken was raised, it became a goose. When the goose was raised, it became a sheep. Then the sheep was raised and the sheep became a sheep. It became a cow. This is how our Xu family got started.
12. Jiazhen is your woman, not someone else’s, and no one can take her away.