Tiny > Tiny's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Young man, there are two cringe-worthy phrases in one’s life that must be said, no matter what.”

“Which two?”

“‘Thank you’, and 'I’m sorry’.”

“What can anybody do to me if I don’t say them?”

“Someday, you’ll say those words in tears.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“He said, “Lan Zhan, here, look at me.”

Lan WangJi replied in a voice that still sounded a little tight, “Mmm.”

Taking a deep breath, Wei WuXian said quietly, “……I really do have a terrible memory. I’ve forgotten a lot of things from before, including that night at the Nightless City. What really happened during those few days, I really don’t remember a thing.”

Hearing this, Lan WangJi’s eyes widened slightly.

Wei WuXian abruptly clutched Lan WangJi’s shoulders and continued, “But! But starting from now, everything you say to me, everything you do to me, I’ll remember them all, I’ll never forget a thing!”

“……”

Wei WuXian said, “You’re wonderful. I really like you.”

“……”

“Or rather, I should say, I fancy you, love you, want you, can’t be without you, whatever you want it to be.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“Remember the things others do for you, not the things you do for others. Only when people don't hold so much in their hearts would they finally feel free.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You're really great. I like you. Or in other words, I fancy you, I love you, I want you, I can't leave you, I whatever you. I want to night-hunt with you for the rest of my life."
Wei WuXian put three fingers together, pointing at the sky, the earth and finally his heart.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“I could not say with certainty whether what he did was right or wrong, but no matter what, i'm willing to shoulder all the consequences with him”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“What could he say?

That, back then, I wasn't caught by the Wen Sect because I wanted to go back to Lotus Pier to retrieve my parents' corpses. That, at the town we passed on our way, when you were buying food, a group of Wen Sect cultivators caught up. That, I discovered them early and left where I sat, hiding at the corner of the street and didn't get caught, but they were patrolling the streets and would soon run into you outside.

That this was why I ran out and distracted them.

But just like how the past Wei Wuxian couldn't tell him the truth of giving him his golden core, the current Jiang Cheng wasn't able to say anything either.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“Fathers leave in all sorts of ways. Some of them leave in the dark. Some leave only in their heads, while their bodies remain, staring at the world around them forever distantly. Others fade out over time, like an old photo rubbed raw. Many, gone in an instant.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“You can fault the dancer, but more often than not, it is the dance itself that has to change.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“If one listened, one could hear it in their voices. One can tell a lot, even in such a state, by the way someone speaks another's name.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“even now it remains hard for me to determine how I feel about the men who had sprung from me—what to do about my deep hatred, and my bottomless love, for them.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“One day in the endless loop of history, in the circular currents of its water, where there was no future, and no past, these steps would be inscribed in the shaft of an antique wooden weapon, and would tell the tale of these two warriors.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“His voice is small when he says, out loud, “I was so close.” He is looking at Jun when he says this. Jun refuses to look at him; he knows that if he does, he will change his mind. Keema is looking at Jun and he is crying. I was so close.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“I heard him call the Daware man’s name. The Daware man was on a skiff he had cut free from Luubu’s disintegrating ship. The Daware man called his name back. If one listened, one could hear it in their voices. One can tell a lot, even in such a state, by the way someone speaks another’s name.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“I thought how strange it was that I ever feared the end. That I had ever tried to escape it. And like that, it was done. My hand releasing from its fist. The battle fought. The life slipped from this old tether”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must be to live in this world.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“even I cannot deny how difficult it can be, to accept that sometimes, to survive, we must change our course.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“And Keema realized it was not sweat that poured down Jun's chin, but tears, for finally, in the calm of this syncopation, we were quieted, the river cleaned of bodies, the knife taken out of a child's back, and a cold rain falling on the burning house, until the hand in the window slipped away and all that remained was smolder.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“But you know as well as any guilty party that no one thought stands alone. That there is a city within you, populated by both high- and lowborn beliefs, interjections, prayers, rantings.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“One might think it amazing that in face of such overwhelming evidence, no effort was made to save themselves. But though I cannot help but wish that when the world quirks and shudders, we have the wherewithal to listen, even I cannot deny how difficult it can be, to accept that sometimes, to survive, we must change our course.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“With a wave of this body’s hand all the braziers are snuffed out in this Inverted Theater. The movement is sudden, as is the disappearance of the light, the darkness you are submerged in so complete you can feel it as a presence that surrounds you, blocking sight of even your own hand. It is not so much an absence as it is an overwhelming smog. You can feel it in your chest. The tightness of your breath. The darkness is closing in on you.

Such was the quality of night in the Old Country, or what they then knew as the true dark, which, when the sun fell from its daily perch, was total and unyielding.

What else could they have hoped for, with no moon in the sky?”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water