“I am not home. I am here.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing.”
― She Who Became the Sun
― She Who Became the Sun
“Never’ has come to stay. ‘Never’ feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer here.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“And the boy who had been the Zhu family’s second daughter said, clearly enough for Heaven to hear, “My name is Zhu Chongba.”
― She Who Became the Sun
― She Who Became the Sun
“Yes.' Ouyang tried to laugh. It stuck in his throat like a salty sea urchin. 'This is your death. That is mine. We're fixed, Esen.' The saltiness was choking him. 'We have always been.”
― She Who Became the Sun
― She Who Became the Sun
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