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She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) QUOTES

She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) QUOTES

1 " Children had taken pleasure in whispering to one another. That in other, worse-off villages, neighbors would swap their youngest children to eat... But now, seeing her father avoiding her gaze, the girl realized it wasn't just a story...In that one terrible moment, she knew what her fate of nothing meant. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

2 " Now, as she looked at the person standing before her in a body like her own, she saw someone who seemed neither male nor female, but another substance entirely: something wholly and powerfully of its own kind. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

3 " How could her body be a woman's body, if it didn't house a woman? "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

4 " Knowing the cause of their suffering, the peasant cursed their barbarian emperor in his distant capital in the north. As with any two like things connected by a thread of qui, whereby the actions of one influence the other even at a distance, so an emperor's worthiness determines the fate of the land he rules. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

5 " the girl knew that fathers and sons made the pattern of the family, as the family made the pattern of the universe "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

6 " There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

7 " The girl was startled by her own anger. Heaven had promised Chongba life enough to achieve greatness, and he had given up that life as easily as breathing. He had chosen to become nothing. The girl wanted to scream at him. Her fate had always been nothing. She had never had a choice. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

8 " Do you think for a moment I forgot? Did you think I wasn’t even man enough to care? Think me a coward who would dishonor my family and ancestors for the sake of staying alive like this? I may have lost everything important to a man, I may live in shame. But I am still a son. I will do my filial duty; I will avenge my brothers and uncles and cousins who died at the hands of your family; I will avenge my father’s death. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

9 " If you want a fate other than what Heaven gave you, you have to want that other fate. You have to struggle for it. Suffer for it. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

10 " Most strong-willed people never understand that will alone isn't enough to guarantee their survival. They don't realize that even more so than will, survival depends upon an understanding of people and power "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

11 " But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

12 " Denying desire only made yourself vulnerable to those who were smart enough to see what you couldn't even acknowledge to yourself "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

13 " Would you take an injured fox to your breast and not expect a bite "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

14 " Why insist on chasing the shadow of something lost, when you could make something new and even greater "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

15 " Don't look down as you're flying, or you'll realize the impossibility of it and fall "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

16 " Destroying what someone else cherished never brought back what you yourself had lost. All it did was spread grief like a contagion. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

17 " What someone is means nothing about what kind of person they are. Truth is in actions. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

18 " However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

19 " Denying desire only made yourself vulnerable to those who were smart enough to see what you couldn't even acknowledge to yourself. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

20 " The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself. "

― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)