“Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“If it was a monster of some kind, it was a monster that watched over me, and, at the very least it had not devoured me yet.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“As you live with anything, I suspect. You bear it, or you end it. So far we have proved equal to bearing it."
With my mouth stuffed full of mushroom, I didn't say that you could also find beauty in it.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
With my mouth stuffed full of mushroom, I didn't say that you could also find beauty in it.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“In-yo would say that the war was won by silenced and nameless women, and it would be hard to argue with her.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“She had a foreigner’s beauty, like a language we do not know how to read.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
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