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“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
“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
“Why did you think he described the other world—the one he said he went to most often—as a labyrinth?’
Ketterley shrugged. ‘A vision of cosmic grandeur, I suppose. A symbol of the mingled glory and horror of existence. No one gets out alive.”
― Piranesi
Ketterley shrugged. ‘A vision of cosmic grandeur, I suppose. A symbol of the mingled glory and horror of existence. No one gets out alive.”
― Piranesi
“In that moment, Esen seemed breathtakingly handsome, so much so that Ouyang felt a sharp ache of incomprehension, that someone this perfect, so alive and so full of the pleasure of the moment, could be. It hurt like grief.”
― She Who Became the Sun
― She Who Became the Sun
“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
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