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“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Submission but only to the truth.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“Wasn't playing with her heart once enough? Hadn't he already torn her into two and left her to the wolves once before?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.
”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.”
― Sappho

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“The evening star

Is the most
beautiful
of all stars”
― Sappho, Sappho

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho

“…You are, I think, an evening star,
of all the stars, the fairest…”
― Sappho, Fragments

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Magic was at its core, she said, a kind of madness. It was a willingness to look at the corporeal world and to see it only as the story up to that point. That everything that followed could be changed. Rocks fell because the belief that they would fall was so strong. But that belief wasn’t binding. It didn’t have to be binding anyway. For a price.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“When the world denies you choices... you make your own”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Instead of disappearing, she makes me feel reappeared. Reimagined. Her touch shapes me, draws out the boldness that had been hiding in my core.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Fire in, fear out”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“I know what it means to dream about the past.
To dream about things you have loved, and lost.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“We might be Paper Girls, easily torn and written upon. The very title we’re given suggests that we are blank, waiting to be filled. But what the Demon King and his court do not understand is that paper is flammable.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“In my land, we're known as Paper Girls...
Easily torn, existing only for others to use and discard.
But there's something that they've all forgotten about paper. It can light the world on fire...
And make it burn.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Is that why you stare at the stars?” he asked. “Are you searching for beauty or dreaming with your eyes wide open?”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Dreams are for mortals."
"Why?"
"Because they must die.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“I like your daydreams, dear girl," he said quietly.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Nation over everything. But not you, sweetheart. Never your life in exchange”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune