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The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) QUOTES

The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) QUOTES

1 " Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

2 " You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

3 " The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

4 " She had a foreigner’s beauty, like a language we do not know how to read. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

5 " Let him kill himself,” I said finally. “As long as he is dead, that is all that matters to me.” That’s something I think peasants understand better than nobles. For them, the way down matters, whether you are skewered by a dozen guardsmen or thrown in a silk sack to drown or allowed to remove your robe and walk down to the shores of the lake before you gut yourself. Peasants understand that dead is dead. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

6 " Look to your records, cleric. Honor is a light that brings trouble. Shadows are safer by far. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

7 " Submission but only to the truth. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

8 " Strange how some trash survives, but precious things are lost, isn’t it? "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

9 " Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

10 " Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves. I am not worried for her in the least. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

11 " Those who bear children hold the keys to life and death, and their ill wishes are to be feared. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

12 " When I explained it to her, she went silent and turned her face to the wall, still as the sky before a lightning strike. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

13 " Honor is a light that brings trouble. Shadows are safer by far. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

14 " She disappeared like Kazu did, like any number of women did over the years, unremarked, and their demise as unremarkable as surely they were not. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

15 " I know very well, though, that In-yo never hated Kao-fan. She may have pitied her, or been angry with her, or simply found her irritating or foolish or unfashionable. Hate, however, was reserved for equals, and as far as In-yo was concerned, she had no equals in all the empire. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

16 " History will say that she was an ugly woman, but that is not true. She had a foreigner’s beauty, like a language we do not know how to read. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

17 " No one likes a prodigy, after all. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

18 " See, this combination means that you will be successful in your career, but only if you remember to take things in their own time. No one likes a prodigy, after all. Patience should be your watchword. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

19 " Chih thought that even from the crowd, they would see in her face the trace of a migratory bird, a rabbit, and the empress from the north, fierce enough to fight wolves. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

20 " ... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—"
Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children and their children as well. "

― Nghi Vo , The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)