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1 " Despite the endless horrors that we've both been through, I really am grateful that we survived to meet each other. "
― Xiran Jay Zhao , Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
2 " We stare at each other, the Iron Demon and the Iron Widow, our arms cuffed, a crown of gun barrels around our heads, trapped among soldiers and fog and battle sounds. "
3 " Where do you think your family’s misery comes from, Zetian? Don’t you think they’d become different people if you could get them out of this place and give them all the food and security they’ve lacked in their lives?- Xiuying "
4 " The voices that refused to be silenced, the hands that refused to be bound, the spirits that refused to be broken "
5 " He can’t change anything. He doesn’t own me. Nobody does. They may think they do, but no matter how they scold or threaten or beat me, they can’t really control what goes on in my head, and I think that frustrates them to no end. "
6 " It’s as if I’ve got a cocoon shriveled too tightly around my whole being. If I had my way, I’d exist like that butterfly, giving onlookers no easy way to bind me with a simple label. "
7 " The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily. And there's nothing I'd like to rid the world of more than entitled assholes. "
8 " You don't think girls are afraid?""Girls... know how to sacrifice. "
9 " How could they refuse to let girls have their own Chrysalises?' I say through clenched teeth. "It would be such a help to the war!"Yizhi's eyes darken. "What family would let their son enlist if there's a realistic possibility that he'd be killed by a girl. "
10 " On a scale of ‘one’ to ‘middle-aged man asking you to put on a smile for him,’ how uncomfortable did that make you?- Yizhi "
11 " It's hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, hate us so much for our minds. "
12 " It's hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds. "
13 " The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily. "
14 " Men wants us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds. "
15 " But I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me.I choose vengeance. "
16 " How do you take the fight out of half the population and render them willing slaves? You tell them they're meant to do nothing but serve from the minute they're born. You tell them they're weak. You tell them they're prey. You tell them over and over, until it's the only truth they're capable of living. "
17 " Love isn't some scarce resource to battle over. Love can be infinite, as much as your heart can open. "
18 " Perks of refusing to play by the rules: you don’t have to choose between the boy who’d torture a man to death with you and the boy who welcomes you back with pastries. "
19 " He should be the Iron King, and I should be the Iron Queen. Yet Iron Demon and Iron Widow is all they'll let us be. "
20 " The world does not deserve my respect. It is not worthy of my kindness or compassion. "
