“After all, everyone wanted warmth.
Especially a stray dog that had frozen in the bitter cold so many times that the mere sight of salted roads made him tremble in the anticipation of snow, of the coming of winter.
Taxian-jun looked imposing, but only he himself knew the truth.
That he was nothing but a laughable stray. A stray that had always been looking for a place that he could curl up at, a place to call 'home', but he spent fifteen years looking and he still couldn't find it.
And so, his love and hate become laughably simple -
If someone gave him a beating, he would hate that person.
If someone gave him a bowl of soup, he would love that person.
He was only so simple, after all.”
Source: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Elder Vara had managed, of course. The world could end and he would find a way to keep on reading.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“A former exile who dabbles in alchemy and spent weeks in the employ of pirates. Yes, that sounds like someone they would want to mold the minds of the next generation.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“She had not been human in that final hour. Just a paper lantern, thin and wind-torn, clinging to the flickering remnants of a soul. Yet when there was no more to climb, and she had looked up and seen nothing but the terrible beauty of the sky, she had found the strength to rise.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Eadaz,' Aralaq said.
'Yes?'
'Do not follow stupid birds into dark places again.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I have an interest in survival, Lord Arteloth. I recommend you nurture one, too.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.”