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1 " The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree "
― Anchee Min , Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
2 " I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself. "
3 " Like a singing riverYou break out to flow freelyI am the mountain behindHappily I watch youMemory of usFull and sweet "
4 " Prezirem ljude koji se svijaju kako vjetar puše. "
5 " Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. "
6 " Misery is the work of the mind," Nuharoo said as she took a sip of her tea. "Master it and you will feel nothing but happiness. The beauty of my nails has not been damaged, because they stayed inside the protectors. "
7 " To give to is to accept your fate.To give to is to create peace.To give to is to gain the upper hand, andTo give to is to have it all. "
8 " Vjetar pokazuje svoje tijelo kroz drhtavo lišće. "
9 " Zabranjeni grad je pjesma u svojem najčistijem obliku. On je moj duhovni vrt gdje mogu leći među cvijeće i otpočinuti. "
10 " He could order my death, but he couldn't order himself one. "
11 " His words carried great urgency, as if his house would catch fire if he didn't speak fast enough. "
12 " My life so far was a piece of embroidery with every stitch sewn by my own hands. "
13 " I hope that one day Tung Chih will fall in love with a sword this beautiful. "
14 " In my old age, whenever I tired of working or thought of quitting, I would go and visit the ruins of Yuan Ming Yuan. The moment I stepped among the broken stones, I could hear the barbarians cheering. The image would choke me as if the smoke still clung in the air. "
15 " Buddhists believed that the lotus leaf was the seat of Kuan Ying, the goddess of mercy, who was orginally a man but took the form of a woman. Kuan Ying was a favourite of mine, so I was inclined to like Li Lien-ying from the start. "
16 " Cheerfulness belonged to youth and one naturally lost it. "
17 " But my spring continued to have no butterflies. "
18 " I was now the most powerful woman in China, yet my spirit was stuck with that empty coffin with my name and title carved in cold stone. "
19 " The anger they harbored was so uncontrollable that only death could contain it. "
20 " She used to be the favourite concubine of Emperor Tao Kuang, but now she lived in a jar. "
