Tang Jiu Qing > Quotes

“To marry me, two million isn’t enough; I want Lanzhou’s priceless smile that even a thousand gold cannot buy.”
― Tang Jiuqing

“There’s a man I love."
Jing Lin strained to say to himself. 
"In the clouds. In the sea. In my heart.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 南禅 [Nan Chan]

“Unlike the last time they went horse-riding in Qudu, Xiao Chiye was serious this time. He led Shen Zechuan up Lang Tao Xue Jin and explained it all to Shen Zechuan regardless of significance, from how to step on the saddle to how to pull on the reins. It was as if he wanted to leave it all to Shen Zechuan—His horse, his eagle, his heart.”
― Tang Jiu Qing

“There’s a man I love...I expected him to be my tribulation, but then I fell under his spell. I yearn to see him in the day, and I yearn to see him at night.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 南禅 [Nan Chan]

“I found myself a man!" Sunlight shone on Xiao Chiye's face, dispelling the dark clouds of yesterday. This brat was truly a little rascal as he shouted provocatively, "The best-looking man in the whole of Dazhou is my wife!”
― Tang Jiuqing, 将进酒（二册）

“Xiao Chiye was like the blazing sun. He was also like the wind from the grassland. He stood out from the masses. To Shen Zechuan, hiding that handkerchief on that day with the gloomy and damp rain and snow was like hiding a rousing and passionate dream. In this dream, there was the unrestrained galloping of horses over a thousand li1 of grasslands, and the spreading of wings soaring through ten thousand li of clear sky. These eventually turned into an indescribable glimpse—one he would be hard-pressed to recount in detail.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“Xiao Chiye raised his head and said in a hoarse voice, “Oh, how I love you so.”

Shen Zechuan was slightly stunned.

Xiao Chiye looked at him and enunciated each word as he repeated, “I love you so much.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 将进酒 [Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ]

“We’ll build a house on the Zhongbo-Libei demarcation line and meet there every month—it’s a must. To marry me, two million isn’t enough; I want Lanzhou’s priceless smile that even a thousand gold cannot buy.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“One must not have the heart to harm others, and at the same time, not lack the mind to guard against others.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 南禅 [Nan Chan]

“Shen Zechuan coyly shifted closer. He leaned in and whispered into Xiao Chiye’s ear: “Even if you spare me, do you think I will spare you?”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“You think this way because you can’t comprehend that there are people in this world willing to be bound by love.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“What is taught in words can easily slip away; only painful experience confers real wisdom.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 2

“I have a beloved, over the mountains and across the seas… I’m his reverse scale… My name is Jing Lin… Ming Jin Stage… City of
Huaishu… Qixing town… He and I, he…
...I want to form a marriage alliance with him… In Qixing Town…Ming Jin Stage… Come for me, for me…”
― Tang Jiuqing, 南禅 [Nan Chan]

“Xiao Chiye looked down at him. “As long as we can get out of Qudu, we’ll go together, even to the ends of the earth.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“In my next life…don’t…don’t bring me here again…I want to be a swallow of our Great Zhou…nesting under the eaves of abundance…”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“Brothers who fight among themselves and families who draw swords on each other are a rotten lot—they’ll destroy themselves before outsiders ever lift a finger.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“He wanted to go home.

He wanted to go home, proudly and honestly, as himself.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“It’s human nature to want,” he said.

“Wanting is prelude to both joy and misery.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“Shen Zechuan rested his head against Xiao Chiye’s chest. “Is the moon in Libei as round as the moon in Duanzhou?”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“Each would stain the other, letting mutual hatred spin a thread that couldn’t be severed. It was too agonizing to live like this, alone, with only the snow to listen to their howls in the night. They had no one to lean on but each other—so why not tear into each other until they were bloody?

This life was already rotten enough.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“I want a falcon, Shifu. I want to fly. I can learn to tame falcons. Once I tame one, his wings will belong to me. Wherever he flies, I will have flown there too.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“He was like a wolf pup collecting the stars, hoarding them all just to stuff them into Shen Zechuan’s hands, like that little jewelry box of pearl and jade earrings.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“That jade earring adorned his right ear, and it was still debatable whether Shen Zechuan embellished it or it embellished Shen Zechuan. It was like a needless warning that concealed Xiao Chiye's undisguised possessiveness behind that smoothness, making it clear to all that no one else, other that Xiao Chiye, could touch Shen Zehuan.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 将进酒 [Qiāng Jìn Jiǔ]

“Shen Zechuan glanced at him, his gaze far more sinister than it had been five years ago. As if a man had already died under that layer of breathtaking skin, and all that survived was an unnamed beast.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“My ambition is not to be a gentleman, nor a good person. Since vindictiveness has becomethe tenet I live by, then a kindness given is kindness given, and a wrong done is a wrong done.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 2

“They had earnestly bared their hearts to each other in this humble thatched cottage, as if in these few scant hours away from Qudu they could cast aside the strategy and prudence politics demanded and become no more than two young men.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“Beyond their cryptic challenges and dread of each other, they shared the inexplicable empathy of fellow sufferers.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1

“He treasures his family, and so he feels fear too.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 3

“In this world, someone has to be the traitor. I don’t believe fate is determined by the heavens.”
― Tang Jiu Qing, Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 2

“Who was the hardest person in the world to battle?

The answer was, of course, his own lover.”
― Tang Jiuqing, 南禅 [Nan Chan]