Top 80 Fonda Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Refusing to wear jade, you’re like a goose that won’t go near water.”

— Fonda Lee

52. “Nothing good’s coming, when the dogs start disappearing from the streets.”

— Fonda Lee

53. “The Son family and other Lantern Man petitioners had wanted Hilo to send his men to intimidate the union bosses and break up their gatherings, rough folks up if needed, force them back to work. Hilo had snorted. “What do they think we are? Hired thugs?”

— Fonda Lee

54. “The grimace on Hilo’s face was terrible. “How could you say I made you into a weapon? Like I didn’t love you and treat you like my little brother, like you were nothing to me but a tool? How could you say that?”

— Fonda Lee

55. “I will practice compassion: giving gratitude for my beloved, suffering when they suffer, for now we are joined in all things.”

— Fonda Lee

56. “You can make a rational, well-informed choice, and still be unprepared for what it means.”

— Fonda Lee

57. “Jade warriors are young, and then they are ancient.”

— Fonda Lee

58. “The ruse was Shae’s idea.”

— Fonda Lee

59. “It was terrible enough that the Twice Lucky had been shamed, that the restaurant’s kitchen had harbored jade thieves, but for the two boys to be publicly slain right next to the buffet dessert table – no business could survive the stain of such bad luck.”

— Fonda Lee

60. “If you want to lead, you can’t wait for everyone to line up behind you.”

— Fonda Lee

61. “It seemed everything in the clan required a decision from him that would invariably hurt or offend others and cause further problems.”

— Fonda Lee

62. “People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable.”

— Fonda Lee

63. “How do we do it?” Hilo sighed deeply. “You of all people already know the answer to that, Shae. We don’t handle this world. We make it handle us.”

— Fonda Lee

64. “The gods were often cruel, everyone knew that.”

— Fonda Lee

65. “We don’t handle this world. We make it handle us.”

— Fonda Lee

66. “I will practice courage: protecting my beloved from harm, facing all fears from within or without, for now we are joined in all things.”

— Fonda Lee

67. “When something has to be done, there’s always a way to do it.”

— Fonda Lee

68. “I think it’s natural in our forties to start wondering if we’re past the main events of our lives, or if there are still other mountains to climb.”

— Fonda Lee

69. “Only then did the realization truly strike her. Hilo was the Pillar.”

— Fonda Lee

70. “Janloon was a study in contradictions that could befuddle even someone born there: a bubbling, dirty stew and a modern, glamorous metropolis at the same time, a place overly conscious of trying to be a world-class city, despite being at its core a system of clan fiefdoms.”

— Fonda Lee

71. “Only children and gods are arrogant enough to judge what they can’t understand.”

— Fonda Lee

72. “If you’re not sure you’re in love, then you’re not.”

— Fonda Lee

73. “Si esto es la paz, creo que prefiero la guerra.”

— Fonda Lee

74. “I know some mistakes can’t ever be fixed, but we’ve got to go on, don’t we, and try to make the most of what’s left.”

— Fonda Lee

75. “I will practice goodness: offering freely of myself to my beloved, honoring and caring for each other in body and soul, for now we are joined in all things.”

— Fonda Lee

76. “We women claw for every inch we gain in this world...”

— Fonda Lee

77. “But for the most part, you give a man something to live up to, you tell him he can be more than he is now, more than other people think he’ll ever be, and he’ll try his godsdamned best to make it true.”

— Fonda Lee

78. “And if you loved someone, truly loved them, shouldn’t their happiness matter even more than your honor?”

— Fonda Lee

79. “In my experience, as long as your friends have a high opinion of you, it doesn’t hurt when your enemies have a low opinion, the lower the better.”

— Fonda Lee

80. “Nothing compares to the feeling of riding back to the mews with a trophy tied to your chariot like a conquering hero. On those days, you feel as if you and your roc are one. Zahra and I were complete; we were the sun and the wind, the sky and the earth, life and death, above the world and untouchable.”

— Fonda Lee

81. “The clan can claim everything I have – my time, my blood and sweat, my life and jade – but it can’t have my wife. She’s a stone-eye. She’s the one thing in the world that jade can’t touch.”

— Fonda Lee

82. “Let me take five of my Fists into the Armpit.”

— Fonda Lee

83. “He often wondered what he was missing, what he didn’t know, what other possibilities lay behind doors that had been summarily closed for him when he was too young to know they existed.”

— Fonda Lee

84. “I make this pledge to you and you alone, under the eyes of the gods in Heaven, from this moment until the last one of my life.”

— Fonda Lee

85. “When Wen opened the door and saw him dressed so formally, she backed away from him and put her hands to her chest, bending as if in pain. She trembled as he stepped in the house and put his arms around her. “You’ve decided to go,” she said. “Yes,” he said. “We have to be married today.”

— Fonda Lee

86. “The way to defeat a chess master was not with greater genius, but by forcing her to play a different game.”

— Fonda Lee

87. “Mutual survival was the basis of brotherhood and loyalty, even of love.”

— Fonda Lee

88. “A misunderstanding between friends is okay. A misunderstanding between enemies isn’t.”

— Fonda Lee