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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “I don’t know if it’s more sad or harrowing that she’s been crushed into dust by marriage, yet is ecstatic to see the same hammer swing toward me.”

51. “I don’t know if it’s more sad or harrowing that she’s been crushed into dust by marriage, yet is ecstatic to see the same hammer swing toward me.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Shame. That was their favorite tool. A tool to corrode me from the inside until I believed I could only accept whatever lot they threw at my bound feet. It didn’t work. Despite their best efforts, I find myself worthy of happiness.”

52. “Shame. That was their favorite tool. A tool to corrode me from the inside until I believed I could only accept whatever lot they threw at my bound feet. It didn’t work. Despite their best efforts, I find myself worthy of happiness.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “It takes a monster to slay a monster.”

54. “It takes a monster to slay a monster.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

55. “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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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “I drag my nails down my head and scream.”

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

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Qieluo was right; this is my ass, being bitten, right now.”

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

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “When a woman gets pregnant, her body is suddenly everybody’s business. Endless restrictions could be clamped onto her “for the good of the baby.” There’s no better tool of control.”

62. “When a woman gets pregnant, her body is suddenly everybody’s business. Endless restrictions could be clamped onto her “for the good of the baby.” There’s no better tool of control.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “So many attempts to stop me from existing comfortably in my own skin, yet here I am, doing what I want with a boy nobody appointed to me. And it’s not dirtying me. It will not ruin me. It is not obscene, filthy, or shameful.”

63. “So many attempts to stop me from existing comfortably in my own skin, yet here I am, doing what I want with a boy nobody appointed to me. And it’s not dirtying me. It will not ruin me. It is not obscene, filthy, or shameful.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “How many aspects of the piloting system – and the world in general – are based on sterile facts, and how many are just illusions? Illusions that reinforce themselves generation after generation, because people don’t question the convenient boxes they’re penned into, the arbitrary rules they live by?”

64. “How many aspects of the piloting system – and the world in general – are based on sterile facts, and how many are just illusions? Illusions that reinforce themselves generation after generation, because people don’t question the convenient boxes they’re penned into, the arbitrary rules they live by?”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Some people have learned the unfortunate lesson that causing pain to others alleviates their own. But maybe they truly haven’t been taught anything else. Maybe they can change, if given the opportunity. A little compassion goes a long way.”

65. “Some people have learned the unfortunate lesson that causing pain to others alleviates their own. But maybe they truly haven’t been taught anything else. Maybe they can change, if given the opportunity. A little compassion goes a long way.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Still, I’m not prepared for the anguish that lacerates through me with the large movement. Static froths through my eyes. I tense back a scream as I steady my head against his shoulder.”

66. “Still, I’m not prepared for the anguish that lacerates through me with the large movement. Static froths through my eyes. I tense back a scream as I steady my head against his shoulder.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Is this the real reason she urged me to make up with my family? So they could be used to control me? I can’t believe I’ve done the one thing I’ve raged at everyone else for doing: underestimating a woman.”

67. “Is this the real reason she urged me to make up with my family? So they could be used to control me? I can’t believe I’ve done the one thing I’ve raged at everyone else for doing: underestimating a woman.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “And, in the end, isn’t that all dignity is? The boundaries and values you decide for yourself? I know what matters most to me, and it has nothing to do with any semblance of “purity.” I will not make myself small and crumple into a sad creature of fear that lives to please Li Shimin in hopes of earning his mercy.”

68. “And, in the end, isn’t that all dignity is? The boundaries and values you decide for yourself? I know what matters most to me, and it has nothing to do with any semblance of “purity.” I will not make myself small and crumple into a sad creature of fear that lives to please Li Shimin in hopes of earning his mercy.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Maybe I don’t know everything I think I do. Everyone lives in a different world. So much of the time, people make decisions they don’t want to.”

69. “Maybe I don’t know everything I think I do. Everyone lives in a different world. So much of the time, people make decisions they don’t want to.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Where do you think your family’s misery comes from, Zetian? Don’t you think they’d become different people if you could get them out of this place and give them all the food and security they’ve lacked in their lives?- Xiuying.”

70. “Where do you think your family’s misery comes from, Zetian? Don’t you think they’d become different people if you could get them out of this place and give them all the food and security they’ve lacked in their lives?- Xiuying.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “I swear, people cannot make up their minds about who are supposed to be the clueless infants who can’t live without supervision: men or women.”

71. “I swear, people cannot make up their minds about who are supposed to be the clueless infants who can’t live without supervision: men or women.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Funny, how a memory born to be discarded can become so much more significant.”

72. “Funny, how a memory born to be discarded can become so much more significant.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “Any choice they gave you was nothing but an illusion meant to make you bear the weight of the guilt, so they didn’t have to.”

73. “Any choice they gave you was nothing but an illusion meant to make you bear the weight of the guilt, so they didn’t have to.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “This world can make monsters out of anyone.”

74. “This world can make monsters out of anyone.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “What’s wrong?” I whisper against his lips. What is it with boys and hesitating to show me their chests?”

75. “What’s wrong?” I whisper against his lips. What is it with boys and hesitating to show me their chests?”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “And, in the end, isn’t that all dignity is? The boundaries and values you decide for yourself? I know what matters most to me, and it has nothing to do with any semblance of ’purity.”

76. “And, in the end, isn’t that all dignity is? The boundaries and values you decide for yourself? I know what matters most to me, and it has nothing to do with any semblance of ’purity.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “This isn’t his victory. This is my temporary mercy.”

77. “This isn’t his victory. This is my temporary mercy.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “As long as I do not give in to my emotions, I cannot lose any game that might be being played.”

78. “As long as I do not give in to my emotions, I cannot lose any game that might be being played.”

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Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “There’s a reason Shimin has been the most powerful pilot in Huaxia for two years. And it has nothing to do with how easily he can carry me without breaking a sweat. To have kept choosing to wake up every day and face what life has dealt him, he is the strongest person I can imagine.”

79. “There’s a reason Shimin has been the most powerful pilot in Huaxia for two years. And it has nothing to do with how easily he can carry me without breaking a sweat. To have kept choosing to wake up every day and face what life has dealt him, he is the strongest person I can imagine.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

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

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

— Xiran Jay Zhao

Xiran Jay Zhao Quote: “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.”

81. “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.”

— Xiran Jay Zhao

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