Top 80 Xiran Jay Zhao Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You’re my polar star. I’ll go wherever you guide me.”

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2. “You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!”

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3. “You know, there’s a kind of predator that disguises itself as prey. That’s the most dangerous kind to people like.”

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4. “Love isn’t some scarce resource to battle over. Love can be infinite, as much as your heart can open.”

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5. “The world does not deserve my respect. It is not worthy of my kindness or compassion.”

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6. “This is not true power. True power is when I stood on the Nine-Tailed Fox with Yang Guang’s corpse at my feet, playing by my own rules. Victorious by my own standards. Reliant on no one but myself.”

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7. “Besides, don’t you know basic geometry, Strategist Sima?” I make a triangle with my fingers and look through it. “A triangle is the strongest shape.”

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8. “Maybe, if things were different, I could get used to this. Being cradled in his warmth and light. Being cherished. Being loved. But I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me. I choose vengeance.”

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9. “The voices that refused to be silenced, the hands that refused to be bound, the spirits that refused to be broken.”

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10. “Listen up: just because you have the capacity to do something for someone, it doesn’t mean you have the obligation to especially when they won’t even appreciate you for doing it.”

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11. “He should be the Iron King, and I should be the Iron Queen. Yet Iron Demon and Iron Widow is all they’ll let us be.”

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12. “True love comes from synergy and trust, not merely chemistry.”

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13. “Men wants us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.”

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14. “You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!” Yizhi slips through the opening created.”

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15. “Infinite possibilities open to me at once. That’s right, I’m no longer human. I’ve been set free from my broken body, that husk of flesh and bone that has been prepared all its existence to be used for the whims and pleasures of men.”

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16. “We stare at each other, the Iron Demon and the Iron Widow, our arms cuffed, a crown of gun barrels around our heads, trapped among soldiers and fog and battle sounds.”

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17. “He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.”

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18. “Wow, the horror! As if I wasn’t naked when I was born.”

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19. “Perks of refusing to play by the rules: you don’t have to choose between the boy who’d torture a man to death with you and the boy who welcomes you back with pastries.”

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20. “When you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don’t pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands.”

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21. “It’s as if I’ve got a cocoon shriveled too tightly around my whole being. If I had my way, I’d exist like that butterfly, giving onlookers no easy way to bind me with a simple label.”

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22. “You can’t shoot me; I’m from Central Command!” Sima Yi shouts, ramming through the soldier standoff. “You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!” Yizhi slips through the opening created.”

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23. “You’d better not be tangled up in a love triangle.”

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24. “Shame and humiliation are self-imposed emotions, and from here on out, I choose not to feel them.”

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25. “But there is money to be made in being hated this much, and being a source of money means power and protection. Media traffic doesn’t care about right or wrong. Every click on a scandalous headline brings profit; every view of a condemning picture generates revenue.”

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26. “Despite the endless horrors that we’ve both been through, I really am grateful that we survived to meet each other.”

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27. “Everyone lives in a different world. So much of the time, people make decisions they don’t want to.”

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28. “With a head full of fantasies of how I’ll flay him alive after he outlives his use, I unzip my pilot coat.”

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29. “We can’t afford to simply go along with the flow of life, because nothing in this world has been created, built, or set up in our favor. If we want something, we have to push back against everything around us and take it by force.”

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30. “I hate the way I’ve contorted myself into what people think a girl should be, ready to please, ready to serve. Yet I love the power it’s given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise.”

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31. “When I break the kiss, I thread my fingers through the pulled-back portion of his hair and touch my forehead to his. Warm breaths gust and swirl between our faces.”

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32. “There will be no redemption. It is not me who is wrong. It’s everyone else.”

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33. “People love to ogle pretty girls, but they love to hate them even more. There’s no one the masses are more obsessed with railing at than the women who dare to stray from the docile ideal of wives and mothers.”

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34. “There’s not a stratum of the world that doesn’t need girls. Maybe we’re devalued precisely because we’re so valuable. The world is too afraid of not bein able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.”

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35. “This body of mine is not big enough to contain the scale of emotion coursing through me. How could I feel a rage like this, and not be able to tear the sky open and scorch the earth?”

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36. “My murder boy, my sweet boy.”

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37. “Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do. No going anywhere without permission. No showing too much skin. No speaking too loudly or unkindly, or at all, if the men are talking. No living my life without being constantly aware of how pleasing I am to the eye. No future except pushing out son after son for a husband.”

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38. “One last thing,” I say over my shoulder, too quiet for my family to hear over the hovercraft churning. “Don’t think I’ve overlooked that you came to my house and almost foiled my plan, despite knowing how important it is to me. If you tip off the army in even the slightest way, I will kill myself when they lock me up, and then I will haunt you.”

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39. “I don’t care how indebted I am to the elders or to the gods. If they don’t respect me just because I’m from the “wrong” half of the population, I’m not respecting them back.”

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40. “I don’t pity you, you dork,” I say with a small laugh. “I cherish you.”

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41. “Sima chokes on thin air. “What’s the matter with you? She may be a little chubby, but she’s still decent-looking!”

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42. “I drag my nails down my head and scream.”

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43. “How do you take the fight out of half the population and render them willing slaves? You tell them they’re meant to do nothing but serve from the minute they’re born. You tell them they’re weak. You tell them they’re prey. You tell them over and over, until it’s the only truth they’re capable of living.”

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44. “Don’t follow after me, Tian-Tian.” She caresses my face, but her fingers crumble into smoke before I can cherish their warmth. “There’s nothing here. It’s not a solution. Not an escape. I’m not free. I’m just gone.”

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45. “I’ve been told endless lies since I was born. That I was not kind enough, considerate enough, humble enough, honorable enough, pretty enough, pleasing enough. And that if I failed to meet the needs of those around me, I did not deserve to live.”

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46. “You cannot appease someone into loving or respecting you.”

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47. “Qieluo was right; this is my ass, being bitten, right now.”

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48. “Yes. I know.” Shimin’s expression goes cold and stony. “You don’t need to have this pity party for me. Go... go be happy!”

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49. “Yet I love the power it’s given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise.”

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50. “But a mother who has failed me so thoroughly is no mother of mine.”

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