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41 " there are no kind solutions to cruel situations "
― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
42 " Look at me and see the person who will win. The person who will rule. "
43 " Nobody will ever end me. I’ll be so great that no one will be able to touch me, or come near me, for fear of becoming nothing "
44 " It made no more sense to doubt the inevitability of fate than it did to doubt the color of the sky "
45 " It was a pull from a fate in the outside world, where greatness was made. "
46 " The fortune-teller was silent. The girl felt a chill drift over her. Her body broke out in chicken-skin and she huddled lower, trying to get away from that dark touch of fear. The candle flame lashed. Then, as if from a distance, she heard the fortune-teller say: "Nothing."The girl felt a dull, deep pain. That was the seed within her, her fate, and she realized she had known it all along. "
47 " He had never been able to inhabit a moment of pleasure as simply and purely as Esen did. Just knowing that it was transient—that any moment would be drained of its sweetness and vividness once it became memory—made it bittersweet to him even as it was happening. "
48 " 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 "
49 " Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be required to achieve greatness in the chaotic, violent world outside. "
50 " I might not know your name,” Ma said, taking Zhu’s hand. “But I know who you are. "
51 " 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. "
52 " To Ouyang, who had endured his entire life for the purpose of avenging his blood, it was a practice so alien as to be incomprehensible. He didn’t know what he would do if Chaghan killed Esen. "
53 " Don’t look down as you’re flying, or you’ll realize the impossibility of it and fall. "
54 " What mistake? Are you always thinking so little of me that my defeats seem inevitable?” Little Guo’s voice rose. “Such disrespect, Ma Xiuying! "
55 " Do you think miracles happen without prayers? "
56 " For all he had acknowledged her as a being capable of desire, he hadn't seen her reality; that she was a woman, trapped within the narrow confines of a woman's life, and everything that could be wanted was all equally impossible "
57 " Compared to the soft monks, the Mongols seemed a breed apart. Not the horse-headed monsters Zhu had imagined long ago upon hearing her father’s stories, or even the brutal conquerors of the accounts of Nanren scholars, but shining and inhuman like the offspring of dragons. "
58 " With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery "
59 " He had always believed revenge would change something. It was only in having done it that he understood that what had been lost was still lost forever, that nothing he could do would ever erase the shame of his own existence. "
60 " Now, as she looked at the person standing before her in a body like her won, she saw someone who seemed neither male nor female, but another substance entirely something wholly and powerfully of its own kind. "