Top 70 M.L. Wang Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “But if I learned one thing from Firebird, it’s that a person’s tragedy doesn’t define them or cancel all the good in their life.”

— M.L. Wang

2. “Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.”

— M.L. Wang

3. “A life of dangerous adventures might seem worth it now, when you are young and seemingly invincible, but one day, you will have children, and you will not want that life for them.”

— M.L. Wang

4. “It was a question of whether he would die quickly, with all his spirit intact, or slowly, after the evils of the world had ripped and beaten every shred of optimism out of him.”

— M.L. Wang

5. “It doesn’t matter how big, or strong, or pretty you are in magic. It doesn’t matter how much people like you. With my fingers on the keys of a spellograph, if I can just think hard enough, I’m the most powerful person in the world. That’s a feeling a woman just isn’t going to get anywhere else.”

— M.L. Wang

6. “Stay,” she said softly and tugged him in until their bodies leaned together. “Stay and watch the sun set with me.”

— M.L. Wang

7. “The worthwhile run is never the short one. You know we’re not running from oblivion, Thomil. We’re running toward hope.”

— M.L. Wang

8. “Be cold, be hard, and don’t give them an inch, you understand? No matter what they say of you.”

— M.L. Wang

9. “You might have twenty years with him. You might only have two. If you waste that time, if you miss it, then when it ends, you’re going to feel like the biggest idiot who ever lived.”

— M.L. Wang

10. “Learn to read the situation, you moron.”

— M.L. Wang

11. “Was the headmaster serious about challenging people to single combat? You guys really still do that?” “How else would we settle our differences?” “I don’t know. Talking?”

— M.L. Wang

12. “I’ve never needed a sword to protect you – to raise you the way your father wanted. Caring for my family meant putting away the fighter, so I did.”

— M.L. Wang

13. “I don’t know if you noticed, Headmaster, but the enemy is a tornado. What are you going to do?” “Kill it,” Takashi said.”

— M.L. Wang

14. “But unencumbered by the tight kimono or the childish cowardice that had bound her for years, she had become a new creature, more fluid and boundless than a girl but more solid than a shadow – a woman of lightning sinew and roaring blood.”

— M.L. Wang

15. “The Whispering Blade met Misaki’s obsidian sheath and sheared through it. Her eyes went wide, and she smiled – Gods in the Deep, she smiled – a raw, open smile, and it was the most beautiful thing in all the Duna.”

— M.L. Wang

16. “This child is our blood. She belongs to all of us, and it is our responsibility to find her safe.”

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17. “This... you are my story... and I was so selfish, so tied to that shadow that I missed it. And my son, I – I’m so sorry it took me this long to understand. I’m sorry – ” the words caught in her throat, choking her, until pain shot through her chest, forcing her to let them out. “I never loved you the way I should have.”

— M.L. Wang

18. “She evaded and drove her hairpin into the side of his neck, burying the hair ornament all the way up to the flowery bauble at the end. He choked, blood spattering from his mouth, and clawed at his throat.”

— M.L. Wang

19. “Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.”

— M.L. Wang

20. “He recovered smoothly, his feet quickly finding their stance again in the gathering snow, but he looked stunned. The feat of strength, from such a diminutive theonite, should not have been possible. “What are you?” Takeru whispered. Something bigger than myself, she realized. “I’m Matsuda Misaki,” she said with pride and honesty she never attached to those words before. “I’m your wife.”

— M.L. Wang

21. “It’s like I stepped through a portal back in time.”

— M.L. Wang

22. “Flayed and boneless, he faced the creature he had awakened, this woman of god’s blood and fury.”

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23. “A student like you, who can absorb what he is told but also think beyond it, is capable of anything.”

— M.L. Wang

24. “Power was born into a person and lived in the wordless depths of their soul.”

— M.L. Wang

25. “People always said the Ranganese were demons of a different breed from the Kaigenese, but their blood seemed to be the same color, now that they lay still, letting it run together. They had all come out of the same ocean, hadn’t they? At the beginning of the world?”

— M.L. Wang

26. “Most strong things are rigid. If you are water, you can shift to fit any mold and freeze yourself strong. You can be strong in any shape. You can be anything.”

— M.L. Wang

27. “Mages are detached from reality. They’re obsessive, socially stunted egomaniacs. You know, like me,′ she said and caught Thomil suppressing a smile.”

— M.L. Wang

28. “Thomil said that a woman was weighed at the gates of Heaven by her actions and their impact. Well, Sciona was going to leave an impact. Whatever happened next, whether it led to Hell or Heaven, she was going to have a hand in directing it. Sick or sound, good or evil, she was still Sciona Freynan. And Sciona Freynan didn’t slow down. Sciona Freynan would be remembered.”

— M.L. Wang

29. “What fighting style?” Kwang raised his eyebrows. “Video games.”

— M.L. Wang

30. “For once, the last thing she wanted was to be alone with her knowledge.”

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31. “The question isn’t: How do I stop feeling this way? That’s stupid. I can’t. The question is: What can I do with this feeling?”

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32. “She wants to die sticking it to those men.” “How do you know?” “Trust me, Uncle. It’s a girl thing.”

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33. “I feel like I’m in one of those old samurai movies.”

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34. “Husbands have been putting their names on their wives’ work in this city for three hundred years. And if it’s not a woman’s husband, it’s her boss, because women are limited to being apprentices and assistants in almost every profession worth doing. No woman ever gets credit for the work she puts in – especially in academia. She never gets the glory. Well, I’m not married, I’m no one’s apprentice, and I’ll be damned if I let a man find some other way to take my glory from me.”

— M.L. Wang

35. “When you go against the tribes of the enemy, hold your staff before you as a torch and watch the unclean fall to the Light of Truth.”

— M.L. Wang

36. “Who says that children belong to their fathers? We carry them, we nourish them inside us, we bring them into the world, we do all the work in raising them. Then these men – these men think they can just take them and kill them?”

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37. “The brightest meadows grew from dead things.”

— M.L. Wang

38. “I’m the one who saw Truth and didn’t look away.”

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39. “Truth over delusion. Growth over comfort.”

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40. “Well, they’ve come in the wrong season. Autumn dies in the teeth of winter.”

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41. “I have to stay here?′ In this utterly unacceptable reality where all the good I’ve ever done – all the good I’ve ever known – is an evil?”

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42. “Yes, my son. I’m proud of you.” “I’m not sure I’m worthy of your pride,” Mamoru said with a smile, “but I will be. Just wait.”

— M.L. Wang

43. “Somewhere in his time playing mage’s assistant, he had forgotten what he was: not a citizen of this city, just flesh that it fed on.”

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44. “Thomil had said that how a person felt about their actions didn’t matter; only the actions themselves mattered.”

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45. “A decade later, a fifteen-year-old Hiroshi would become known as the youngest swordsman ever to master the Whispering Blade. What the world would never know, was that he was the second youngest.”

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46. “The pain was sharp, but small, unimportant somehow. Suddenly, it wasn’t as though he was missing fingers. His fingers were the snow. They were the rivers, reaching all the way down the mountain to sink into the ocean and grasp the power of gods. He wasn’t bleeding out. He was the mountain. For the first time in his life, he was perfectly, overwhelmingly whole.”

— M.L. Wang

47. “So many parents will try to kill everything brilliant about a girl in the name of giving her a good life, a safe life, a chance at happiness.”

— M.L. Wang

48. “Here was a reason to live greater than all his grief and fear.”

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49. “Maybe that was the ‘how’ Robin had been looking for, the simple magic by which she held herself together. Love for what she had and what was gone. Love no matter the pain.”

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50. “What sort of a man closed his eyes to the world and called it clarity?”

— M.L. Wang