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. “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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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. “You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!”

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

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

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7. “My murder boy, my sweet boy.”

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8. “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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9. “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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10. “Wow, the horror! As if I wasn’t naked when I was born.”

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

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

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “You can’t shoot me; I’m rich!” Yizhi slips through the opening created.”

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

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “Yizhi gapes at me. Then a disbelieving laugh rolls out of him. “All right, let me make this clear: Wu Zetian, you inspire me. Whenever i lose hope that the world can change, I remember you. I remember how you fight for what you want, no matter what anyone says, no matter what stands in your way.” He draws me into his arms and murmurs into my hair. “You’re my polar star, I’ll go wherever you guide me.”

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “Men wants us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “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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27. “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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28. “He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.”

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29. “Never appease. No one’s ever been respected for appeasing. The only thing you did was let them know there are no consequences to treating you like trash.”

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

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31. “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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32. “We spend so much effort living these lives, yet every trace of their substance and meaning can be erased so quickly. So easily.”

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

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

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37. “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. If you’re a big enough cash cow, the media companies will lobby and bribe every government connection they have to keep from losing you.”

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38. “Attention, all Gao Enterprise personnel!” Yizhi shouts into his wristlet between ragged breaths. “New bargain: defy us, and all of you and your families will die! Obey us, and you’ll keep everything you have and more!”

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39. “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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40. “It takes a monster to slay a monster.”

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41. “He can’t change anything. He doesn’t own me. Nobody does. They may think they do, but no matter how they scold or threaten or beat me, they can’t really control what goes on in my head, and I think that frustrates them to no end.”

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42. “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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43. “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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44. “I drag my nails down my head and scream.”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “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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48. “But a mother who has failed me so thoroughly is no mother of mine.”

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49. “Since the day I was born, the world had told me I must accept whatever woth men assign me. And maybe, despite my nonstop rebellion, I did. They told me to choose between accepting their doctrine or dying, and I did. I chose death. It was the surrender that made me fearless.”

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50. “Even though everything feels impossible, even though I will never be the same, even though all I want to do is lie down and give up, I make myself keep going.”

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