The Rent Collector Quotes
"The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within."
"Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment."
"When you find your purpose—and you will find your purpose—never let go. Peace is a product of both patience and persistence."
"The sun at Stung Meanchey shows no prejudice."
"Good luck, Grandfather. We needed good luck!"
"Teaching someone to read, Sang Ly, is very mechanical."
"Literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart."
"Everyone loves adventure, Sang Ly, when they know how the story ends."
"Run with me, tiger, with imposing stripes of orange and deafening growl. Cause enemies to cower and bring my spirit courage."
"Show true resolve and the strength of a determined mind."
"Teach me to value a strong home that will protect against the rain."
"Cleanse my body and keep it cool from the sun’s hot rays."
"Open my eyes to the world’s expanse and Nature’s wonder."
"Remind of life’s short days and of precious time."
"We remember our lives in the province—but mostly we remember Aunty."
"For helping me find my first piece of literature."
"People recited poems before they could even read or write."
"Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside—and even if you find them all, if you don’t enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment."
"The desire to believe, to look forward to better days, to want them, to expect them—it seems to be engrained in our being."
"Fight ignorance with words. Fight evil with your knife."
"Your heart is flowing with memories. Signs of their love and admiration are all around you, whether you choose to see them or not."
"Our trials, our troubles, our demons, our angels—we reenact them because these stories explain our lives."
"Learning is an affair that takes a lifetime. Just be patient."
"We love the story because we are Sarann or Tattercoats or Cinderella. We all struggle with the same problems and doubts."
"If you are certain you are facing evil, and not ignorance, you must, if you can, destroy it before it destroys you!"
"Hope is written so deeply into our hearts that we just can’t help ourselves, no matter how hard we try otherwise."
"Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn’t give up hope."
"The true mark of a hero, what sets him apart from everyone else, is sacrifice. A hero gives something up, sometimes even his own life, for the good of others."
"To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart."
"Where is the balance between humbly accepting our life’s trials and pleading toward heaven for help?"
"I’m ready to tell my story, not just because it might help others—which I hope it will—but because it’s time I try to make sense of my past."
"Life could be worse, didn’t that mean it could also be better?"
"A mother’s curse... We are only as happy as our saddest child."
"Amazing things are about to happen in your life—I feel it!"