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Descendant of the Crane QUOTES

Descendant of the Crane QUOTES

1 " To learn, her mind had needed to unlearn. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

2 " No night was perfect for treason, but this one came close. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

3 " But tonight, Hesina let herself miss her father. She missed him. She missed him a lot. As the distant chords flowed into their little clearing, winding with the strings of her heart, she imagined herself riding on a chariot to face the Kendi'an Crown Prince. And later, when she slept, she dreamed she died, but her father read her back to life, and together they flew to the lunar palace on the backs of their giant cranes. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

4 " Knowledge is truth, Little Bird. Those who refuse to learn live in a world of falsity. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

5 " In the times ahead, you may not know whom to trust. So trust in yourself, and trust in your beliefs. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

6 " What is truth? Scholars seek it. Poets write it. Good Kings pay gold to hear it. But in trying times, truth is the first thing we betray. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

7 " If you want to understand a person, peer at his heart through the window of his prejudices and assumptions. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

8 " Equality is not the natural way of the world, whispered her father's voice. It must be nurtured. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

9 " Missing some people was like missing air. You did yourself no favors by wondering how you survived without them. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

10 " You can't possibly touch all the lives in this world. But if you can lift someone with your two hands, that is enough. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

11 " This fate had chosen her. It was only now, seventeen years later, that she chose it back. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

12 " Anger is a form of confidence - a hope that the ones we admire will change for the better. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

13 " Knowledge is truth, Little Bird. Those who refuse to learn live in a world of falsity. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

14 " Her, against a seasoned court. Her, against the tides of war. Her, against the king's assassin. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

15 " There were no simple questions, or simple answers, Hesina decided bitterly. There were only truths sacrificed for other truths. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

16 " The best way of controlling a person is by reading his heart. And the clearest window to any heart is prejudice and assumption. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

17 " What is power? Hesina had thought it was wielding the knife, or getting someone to wield it for her. Now she realized it was neither. Power was yielding. It was taking the bloodstained knife out of a thousand frenzied hands and making it hers alone. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

18 " I taught her to love the truth. You taught her to love learning. Your sister taught her to fight for what is right. Her mother taught her the pain of not being accepted for something she can't control. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

19 " Her father had gifted her this pin as he’d gifted his love: from the moment of her birth, when her hands had been too small to grasp its form. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane

20 " With a twist of unease, Hesina sank against the pillows at her back. “It was never fine. The Eleven freed the oppressed by oppressing their oppressors. "

― Joan He , Descendant of the Crane