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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “She didn’t just want greatness. She wanted the world.”

51. “She didn’t just want greatness. She wanted the world.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “Where’s the fun in suffering by yourself?” Xu Da said in his good-natured way. Surprised, Zhu realized he was probably her friend. She’d never had a friend before. But she wasn’t sure suffering could be shared, even with one’s friends. Watching her father and brother die, digging their graves, kneeling for four days in front of the monastery: all of them had been acts of exquisite aloneness. She knew that when she came down to it, you survived and died alone.”

52. “Where’s the fun in suffering by yourself?” Xu Da said in his good-natured way. Surprised, Zhu realized he was probably her friend. She’d never had a friend before. But she wasn’t sure suffering could be shared, even with one’s friends. Watching her father and brother die, digging their graves, kneeling for four days in front of the monastery: all of them had been acts of exquisite aloneness. She knew that when she came down to it, you survived and died alone.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “Not-wanting is a desire too; it yields suffering just as much as wanting.”

53. “Not-wanting is a desire too; it yields suffering just as much as wanting.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her.”

54. “There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “Children had taken pleasure in whispering to one another. That in other, worse-off villages, neighbors would swap their youngest children to eat... But now, seeing her father avoiding her gaze, the girl realized it wasn’t just a story... In that one terrible moment, she knew what her fate of nothing meant.”

55. “Children had taken pleasure in whispering to one another. That in other, worse-off villages, neighbors would swap their youngest children to eat... But now, seeing her father avoiding her gaze, the girl realized it wasn’t just a story... In that one terrible moment, she knew what her fate of nothing meant.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “It would be the biggest gamble of her life. But if she wanted greatness – she was going to have to stand up and claim it.”

57. “It would be the biggest gamble of her life. But if she wanted greatness – she was going to have to stand up and claim it.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “She was grieving her life as she never had before, and it was all this monk’s fault for having conjured the impossible fantasy of a world in which she was free to desire.”

59. “She was grieving her life as she never had before, and it was all this monk’s fault for having conjured the impossible fantasy of a world in which she was free to desire.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,” she said, “kill him.” – Zhu.”

61. “Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,” she said, “kill him.” – Zhu.”

— Shelley Parker-Chan

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