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81 " Maybe it’s better to have him causing trouble where we can see it, rather than having him run around the estate without supervision. "
― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
82 " Would that family and fate had the same rules as accounting,” Zhang said. "
83 " Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals,” Ouyang said, and felt the terrible weight of his own tangled emotions. "
84 " achieving greatness in the outside world was beyond any person’s individual control "
85 " Well, obviously your prayers wouldn’t. Which deity or ancestor is going to listen to a filthy eunuch? They might listen to me. But it’s true: I do feel more comfortable putting my faith in the efforts of my own hands. "
86 " As long as I keep moving towards my great fate, and keep doing what I need to do, one day I’ll have it. "
87 " Fart—it’s the Heart Sutra!” Ma hissed. “How can you not know that? Think, Guo Tianxu. If the Prince of Radiance is a sign that we have Heaven’s favor, how long do you think that will last if you go around executing monks? "
88 " Dear Yingzi, if you scald your future husband every time he opens his mouth, how will we ever hear his worthy input? "
89 " Conservative!” cried Little Guo, who disagreed with the wisdom that truth is rarely found in the loudest voice. “Will we be conservative until we die of a thousand cuts? For sure they have the larger army, but didn’t Zhuge Liang defeat a hundred thousand with a force of only three thousand? "
90 " scornful look. “You’re a monk who can’t ride, can’t fight, and you don’t want to sell your horse. Can you do anything? "
91 " Don’t kneel,” Esen said at length. “I’m not my father. I have no such expectation that you should abase yourself before me for a loss I myself would have made. Did you not at least defeat their decoy force? You did your best. "
92 " The sight of Heaven’s power filled her with a wild energy that felt like the wind at her back as she ran as fast as she could towards the future. "
93 " As the descendant of a traitor, you might want to be careful to succeed with your next endeavor, lest people begin to wonder whether your mistakes are caused by something other than incompetence. "
94 " Everyone else is a white-eyed idiot,” Jiao said succinctly. “Having the Mandate is all well and good, but when it comes to practical matters I’d rather place my trust in good generalship and a numerical advantage rather than the likelihood of a Heaven-sent miracle. "
95 " Ma glared at him. It was true, though, that male clothing did nothing to hide her feminine shape. With her sturdy thighs and rounded hips, nobody was ever going to compose a poem comparing her to a slender willow, or a gracefully bending blade of grass. "
96 " That no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, you’ll never receive the Mandate of Heaven, because you’re a woman. "
97 " Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing. "
98 " Knowing the cause of their suffering, the peasants cursed their barbarian emperor in his distant capital in the north. As with any two like things connected by a thread of qi, 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. "
99 " So this is how a worthless creature repays the house that has done so much for him! Having lost me ten thousand men and the gains of an entire season, you dare come into my presence and stand? Get down, or I’ll put my boot upon your head and put it down for you! "
100 " Do you think miracles happen without prayers?” he said, grinning. “It’s useful to have a monk around. "