Shinju Quotes

“Devils out! Fortune in!” they chanted. Bedding aired”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“No, I myself choose to ration my pleasures. It gives me something to look forward to. And permits me less chance to reflect upon how much I have lost.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Suddenly he grasped the central truth about his opponent: Lord Niu wanted to kill, but he also wanted to die.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Sano found her behavior oddly formal”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“The monks had educated him far beyond the usual scope of the common foot soldier, now virtually obsolete in a country without war. They’d taught him to think rather than to blindly follow orders,”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“Sano must defer to his superior’s desires at the expense of his own. He also felt deeply disgraced by Ogyu’s implied criticism. Never again would he venture out of the administrative district to investigate firsthand the cases that crossed his desk.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“For the first time, he realized that being a yoriki offered many opportunities for seeking the truth, and just as many rewards for finding it. More, perhaps, than his work as a scholar, poring over old documents. But he wondered uneasily how many more enemies he would make.”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju

“kago”
― Laura Joh Rowland, Shinju