“Save that anger,” Mai said with a sigh. “Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years. Why discard it?”
― Grey Sister
― Grey Sister
“Judging was the luxury of those who did not need to survive.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“There might not be a meaning to the world, or in it, but that does not mean that what we do has no meaning.”
― Holy Sister
― Holy Sister
“...she wore peach-coloured robes with imprints of moons and banyan trees. Her long hair flowed into the floor, turning into the vast expanse of the sky halfway down her back; it looked as though she was dragging the heavens behind her, beautiful and terrible.”
― The Red Scholar's Wake
― The Red Scholar's Wake
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