“In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.” WomenSurveillancePower Struggle Book:The Moon in the Palace Source: The Moon in the Palace
“Silence was a noise with teeth; it gnawed on my skin and left deep marks. Silence was a noise with arms and legs; it crawled across the rafters and spread its spawns of spells. Silence was a noise with a face, a face of dust and doom.” RealitySilence Book:The Last Rose of Shanghai Source: The Last Rose of Shanghai
“How strange we humans were. We built a barbed wire fence between ourselves and turned away from the suffering of others, but we forgot the immunity to pain was delusional. For though salt and sugar we might be, we all had blood in the veins and a heart in the chest, and we all died when hit by a bomb.” RealityPainHumanity Book:The Last Rose of Shanghai Source: The Last Rose of Shanghai