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“It is not a crime,' Terren said through his teeth, 'if nobody can punish me for it.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“I also want those who plagued and tormented me and are currently in Russia to read this in order to learn the moral lesson that there is a God in the world who protects the harassed and oppressed and repays every one according to his deeds….everything is repaid. God waits long and pays well. Nothing is overlooked.”
― Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, The Shochet (Vol. 1): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea

“It is easy to make fleeting footprints in the snow;
It is hard to make lasting marks in the stone.
Shall I dance ten thousand steps, unwitnessed?
Shall I make one carving, forever known?”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

“I had not become so wicked in my heart that I had stopped believing people could change. If a gentle child could turn into a monster, I thought, then surely a monster could become gentle again.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress