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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.”

51. “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.”

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

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “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!”

53. “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!”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be required to achieve greatness in the chaotic, violent world outside.”

54. “Desire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be required to achieve greatness in the chaotic, violent world outside.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.”

56. “The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “And the boy who had been the Zhu family’s second daughter said, clearly enough for Heaven to hear, “My name is Zhu Chongba.”

57. “And the boy who had been the Zhu family’s second daughter said, clearly enough for Heaven to hear, “My name is Zhu Chongba.”

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

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

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “The residence’s doors banged and slammed as if by angry ghosts, and Ouyang felt his ancestors’ eyes upon him as he ate with the son of his family’s murderer, the person he held dearest in all the world.”

59. “The residence’s doors banged and slammed as if by angry ghosts, and Ouyang felt his ancestors’ eyes upon him as he ate with the son of his family’s murderer, the person he held dearest in all the world.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “It was a pull from a fate in the outside world, where greatness was made.”

60. “It was a pull from a fate in the outside world, where greatness was made.”

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Shelley Parker-Chan Quote: “She was always going to be expelled into that world of chaos and violence – of greatness and nothingness.”

61. “She was always going to be expelled into that world of chaos and violence – of greatness and nothingness.”

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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.”

62. “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: “Heaven can’t take you from me. I refuse. I refuse.”

63. “Heaven can’t take you from me. I refuse. I refuse.”

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

64. “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.”

65. “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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