Laura Joh Rowland > Quotes

“Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Concubine's Tattoo

“She needed someone to worship; he needed slavish devotion. They became inseparable companions.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Concubine's Tattoo

“Devils out! Fortune in!” they chanted. Bedding aired”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“There’s danger as well as strength in friendship.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Ripper's Shadow

“No, I myself choose to ration my pleasures. It gives me something to look forward to. And permits me less chance to reflect upon how much I have lost.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“I have a glimpse of my life as it could be after tomorrow—a life filled with luminous scenes such as this. Perhaps someday there will even be a man whose motives I need not question when he kisses me.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Ripper's Shadow

“For the first time, he realized that being a yoriki offered many opportunities for seeking the truth, and just as many rewards for finding it. More, perhaps, than his work as a scholar, poring over old documents. But he wondered uneasily how many more enemies he would make.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Was there ever a time when he viewed women as fellow humans he wanted to cure instead of as material for experimentation?”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Ripper's Shadow

“The monks had educated him far beyond the usual scope of the common foot soldier, now virtually obsolete in a country without war. They’d taught him to think rather than to blindly follow orders,”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Sano found her behavior oddly formal”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Buddhist faith prohibits violence and killing. I have no need of weapons.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Way of the Traitor

“Suddenly he grasped the central truth about his opponent: Lord Niu wanted to kill, but he also wanted to die.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“kago”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Sano must defer to his superior’s desires at the expense of his own. He also felt deeply disgraced by Ogyu’s implied criticism. Never again would he venture out of the administrative district to investigate firsthand the cases that crossed his desk.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Her generous spirit brings my tears close to the surface. So does my new understanding that not all lost friendships are lost forever.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, The Ripper's Shadow