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101 " a family had a son and a daughter and two bites of food, who would waste one on a daughter? Perhaps only if that daughter were particularly useful. "
― Shelley Parker-Chan , She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)
102 " However, having grown up on a peasant's monotonous diet, and with only a half-formed suspicion that better things might exist, her imagination was limited to the dimension of quantity. "
103 " Offering us a chicken, expecting us not to see the fatted pig in the pantry! Go get the rest of it, you cunt. "
104 " a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing. "
105 " But if there’s one thing monks know how to do, it’s to pray so that Heaven hears.” As she walked away, she heard Yuchun’s smug voice in her head: Can’t pray away your fate. But maybe, she thought grimly, you could pray and claim another. "
106 " At some point, though the girl couldn't remember exactly when, she had become the only girl in the village...If a family had a son and a daughter and two bites of food, who would waste one on a daughter? "
107 " Didn’t you tell Little Guo yourself to never say anything against the Prime Minister? But he called Jiankang his own. In the end, that was all Chen Youliang needed. "
108 " Turtle’s anus!” Yuchun dodged the horse and accosted her. “Give it back! "
109 " There is no place for you here, either! Are you a woman without shame, that you would be a burden upon my house?” The Governor was obviously the kind of person who received as much spiritual contentment from berating others as a cold man does from a bowl of soup. “No, I think not. To Khanbaliq or elsewhere, it matters little to me; I have no responsibility for my predecessor’s debts and belongings. "
110 " know,” Esen said, bitter. “The bloodline would end with me. Ah, how I curse those women of mine! Can they not at least perform their one use? "
111 " But why the Red Turbans? If you wanted to lead, you could have easily become a bandit like your monk friend. Why take the one in a million chance of success at Lu? "
112 " He didn’t like the idea that his successes and failures, so hard-earned in the field, might be nothing more than weapons for the court’s internecine battles. "
113 " Are you really so keen to undo all my efforts and run this estate into the ground for a single effort against the rebels? "
114 " Never underestimate Mongols’ taste for competition,” Ouyang said. “Give two men a piece of meat each, and they’ll compete to see who can finish first. "
115 " Your only value to him lies in your army, and you wouldn’t even have an army. You’d be nothing but a washed-up provincial whose lands are being swallowed on one side by the rebels, and Bolud on the other! "
116 " Listen. Isn’t this why you wanted me, so I could tell you what you don’t see? If you don’t want to be witness to a world of nothing but cruelty and suspicion and paranoia, then find another way. "