Molly X. Chang > Quotes

“You shouldn’t ask the girl blessed by Death whom she’ll die for. You should ask her whom she’ll kill for.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“聪明一世，糊涂一时. Intelligent and cautious for a lifetime, it takes a second of stupidity to unravel it all.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“Slowly but surely, one violent act at a time, they had shoved our honor and legacy into the mud and built homes and lamp-lit streets over our ruins.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“For men like Siwang, the only thing more dangerous than his hate was his love”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“But while I could love Rong Siwang the boy, I refused to love Rong Siwang the prince who wanted to rule the world.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“Boys with power were admire —legendary heroes worthy of songs and poetry to remember their honor. Girls with power were painted as malicious, evil, because we wanted more to life than birthding children and following duties. Chasing dreams was forbidden and *love* was a word we'd never truly understand.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed.
We were products of our surroundings, of our upbringings.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“If this was my life, my body, shouldn’t I get a say in what happened to it, and how I wanted to live?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“白发送黑发, 不孝之道. Letting the white hair bury the black hair was unfilial to the highest degree.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“My earliest memories were of the questions I’d asked my father.
What use is power, without freedom? What good is the life of an empress if she is a prisoner chained by rules and tradition and others’ opinions?
Questions my father didn’t know how to answer.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I could not turn back time and keep the prophecy from being spoken. However, I did have command over the present that controlled what would happen tomorrow. Time was a river that flowed endless.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I was the empress-to-be, but an empress still had to bend to the will of a man”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“What if the thing Siwang loves isn’t me, but the prophecy?” My loudest fear, uttered in the quietest whisper”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I want a life beyond the palace walls, and to do more with my life than be a wife and a mother. If I must die for that kind of life, then I will.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“But what if I didn’t want his light? What if I wanted to be my own light?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“For I didn’t want to hear about that life. I wanted to live it.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“To be loved and doted on by one’s husband should be a basic necessity, not something to be admired,” I shot back”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“The world doesn't exist in black and white, or right and wrong. Sometimes, to survive, we have to do our best. And sometimes bad things must be done for the greater good.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“To unsuspecting eyes, Siwang was a dream too beautiful and perfect to be true. Pristine in his silk robes the color of midnight, easily swallowing the crimson of all the blood that stained his hands”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“A prophecy was just words, strung together. If my fate was written in the stars, then I would fly up to heaven and rewrite it.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“For a girl blessed by Death, she feared dying more than she should have.
Perhaps it was because she had glimpsed the other realm, felt the neverending nothingness that existed beyond the veil that separated the living from the dead.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“This was the way of men. As daughters, we were the property of our fathers. As wives, we were the property of our husbands. And one day, if we ever outlived our husbands, we would become the property of our sons.
Whether empress or peasant, we women were never our own.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“Nowhere is safe in the times of tyrants, my dear.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“To preserve peace, we have to make sacrifices" the prince continued. "The world doesn't exist in black or white, or right and wrong. Sometimes, to survive, we have to do our best. And sometimes bad things must be done for the greater good."
Like murder.”
― Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

“If I was really a fallen goddess, destined to bestow my husband with glory, why did I dream only of bloodshed and a capital in flames, never glory?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“What use is all the wealth and luxury if my world is confined to a prison they decorate as a palace?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“Why should my voice sound the quietest in this crowded room of men, set on dictating every aspect of my existence?
Who gave them the right?
My hundreds of questions boiled and fumed like tiny sparks hungry to be set ablaze.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince