Lianyu Tan > Quotes

“What would you rather have me do? Should I serve opium? Serve food? Serve myself? What else do you think I’m qualified for?

I could serve my husband. Hope he doesn’t drink or smoke or gamble or beat me. Have four babies before I’m twenty-five and say I’m blessed if two live to adulthood. Bury the rest from starvation or miscarriage, illness or injury, or my heaven-blessed husband shaking one too hard when he gets home late and they won’t stop crying. You think that’s the better choice?”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“If you’d just let me have you...
Hold you.
Taste you.
I can show you the depths where pain becomes pleasure.”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“You might think that because my blood runs colder than yours, I have no heart, but the opposite is true. If anything, I feel too deeply, love too much.”
― Lianyu Tan

“She imagined herself to be a sapling, settling her roots into the ground. There was no shame in bending under the force of the wind. Any sacrifice was worth it, if it meant survival.”
― Lianyu Tan, Captive in the Underworld

“You stole my heart, and now it beats, fragile and weeping, within your fist. I should despise you for that.”
― Lianyu Tan, Captive in the Underworld

“Mrs. Edevane’s pale, even skin was clear and smooth, the colour of soft tofu.”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“You think you love her. You think, if this is love, you don’t know anything.”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“Women were nothing more than meat, put upon the table for men to slice.”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“I want you. All of you. I adore seeing you writhe beneath me. Feeling you come undone in my arms. I’ll never tire of that.”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing

“If I could only save one person… if I could save you, maybe my life would mean something. Why won’t you let me save you?”
― Lianyu Tan, The Wicked and the Willing