Cindy Pon > Quotes

“expect nothing, be pleasantly surprised.”
― cindy pon

“A plate of roast duck, steamed dumplings, spicy noodles with beef gravy, pickled cucumbers, stewed tongue and eggs if you have them, cold please, and sticky rice pearls, too,' Ai Ling said, before the server girl could open her mouth. "I don't know what he wants." Ai Ling nodded toward Chen Yong.

'I'm not sure I have enough coins to order anything more,' he said, laughing.”
― Cindy Pon, Silver Phoenix

“The punishment of vertical rending was given to those who had destroyed marriages to satisfy their own lust.”
― Cindy Pon, Fury of the Phoenix

“You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars?" Ai Ling asked.”
― Cindy Pon, Silver Phoenix

“There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.”
― Cindy Pon, Fury of the Phoenix

“The beautiful creatures are often the most dangerous," she murmured.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“The thick, stagnant air reeked of perfume, cigarettes, and exhaust. Everyone was barefaced, wanting to flaunt their features instead of hiding beneath blank masks. To be able to flirt with their lips, to be able to kiss. But I wasn’t fooled by the dark—the air was still poisonous. Even if we couldn’t see the brown haze, it smothered our city lit in neon.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“Books weren’t worth the paper they were printed on.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“I knew my childhood had been rough, and many times I had felt so alone. Daiyu must have experienced a different kind of loneliness. But in the end, maybe lonely was lonely.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“and her chest felt hollow, as if he had carried her heart away with him.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“You do not live as long as I have, and survive, by feeling deeply. I sometimes wonder, from my observations, if mortals do not often die from broken hearts.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“more, unwilling to acknowledge what Kai Sen had given up to protect her.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“Skybright was left alone on the empty main street with only the sound of Zhen Ni’s screams ringing in her ears.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“This is what it meant to be a you, to have. To be genetically cultivated as a perfect human specimen before birth—vaccinated and fortified, calibrated and optimized.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“Losing the momentum she had had with her serpentine length, Skybright stumbled forward, falling hard on her knees.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“In the end, she never did get to see me wear this jacket. She caught a cold that turned into a virulent strain of pneumonia. We couldn’t afford the medical care or medicines that might have saved her life. And at thirteen, I watched her die.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“You’re irresistible.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“Her entire body flushed, thrilled from his touch.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“It was so easy to be you. And to lack and want were the complete opposite: hard, cold, unrelenting, and hollow.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“Estranged and probably stubborn to a fault. I was my mother's son.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“But I could do without food and fast on your kisses,”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“Truth is, reality always crushes your ideals,” the guy shouted at my back. “Just you wait and see.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“and a giant demon with a black bull’s head towered in the middle of their room,”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“Stone.”
― Cindy Pon, Serpentine

“She was pretty in a way I wasn’t used to. Not like most you girls bowing to the latest beauty trends, indulging in temporary body modifications from reshaping their noses to plumping their lips, or hips, or rears, depending on what was in. You boys kept pace with pec implants and by buying new, chiseled jawlines. But fads came and went, and the yous altered their looks as often as the seasons. The meis, lacking the funds for such drastic changes, resorted to painting their faces in bright colors, using semipermanent tattoos, and dyeing their hair.”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“My friends and I had decided the best way to gain info on Jin Corp was to get suited, infiltrating the yous by becoming one of them. Victor was perfect for the task—with his charm and good looks, he’d fit right in. But we needed funding. And who better to fund us than those who had a few hundred million to spare?”
― Cindy Pon, Want

“I know I’m very traditional in thought. But you have to believe that I value women for more than their roles within the inner quarters.”
― Cindy Pon, Silver Phoenix

“Books aren't afraid to show you the truth.”
― Cindy Pon