Jasna W.

“It is true, he has suffered, but if everyone who suffered became monsters, the world would be overrun with them.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“Truth was simpler. It was warm bowls of rice on the dinner table, enough for everyone, not only young sons who were still growing. It was families sleeping in the same room. Villagers working together, staving away demons or something worse that plagued them. It was suffering. It was enduring. It was living.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“What is more awe-inspiring? That the universe is so enormous that the edge of it is incomprehensible? Or that we, these ants living on a miniscule speck in a corner of nothingness, were somehow able to figure that out?”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“The closer we come to the perfection that drives us, the more we chip away at our souls. And what happens when we arrive there? What then? You look down from the mountain and see the carnage you’ve wrought.”
― Marie Lu, Red City