Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4 Quotes

“My sustenance...
Xia Xiqing looks up and sees, through the phone screen, the man who's flashing him a radiant smile.
A shining star, within a silent universe.
[...]
My sustenance.
"Him.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“Actually... I've always felt that art might be considered a kind of sustenance in people's everyday life." His voice is like the warm summer breeze-soft and light.
"To me, it is in fact, life itself.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“Those words are like a hand knocking on Zhou Ziheng's lonely heart. Xia Xiqing's soul is talking and Zhou Zheng is listening. He told him that they're the same.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“Because they care about the nature of the world. Poets will tell you how beautiful flowers are but not what made them beautiful." He lifts an arm as if reaching for the stars. "Someone who cares about the flows of wind and water, the conversion of night and day, the birth of the universe... How are they not romantic?”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“Actually, I was enchanted by your voice not long after we first met." Xia Xiqing's eyes brim with tenderness, like a cool mountain stream after the melting of spring snow. "There were so many times I wanted to tell you that I always think of the Cathedral of Florence's bell whenever I hear you speak."

[...]

"Where is the resemblance?"

As the last, lingering chime of the hour trails off, Xia Xiqing answers him in the most gentle voice. "Both... make my heart sing.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“I want to place all the beautiful things in the world in your hand and to give you all of my tenderness, no matter how scarce it is.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“Zhou Zheng is no doubt dazzling. He possesses the ardent love of thousands upon thousands of people.

But it's only when he's facing his dreams that he truly shines.

And at this moment, Xia Xiqing is the one and only person in the world who knows why he shines.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4

“1-3-1-4
-Forever.
One thousand three hundred and fourteen colliding particles of matter and antimatter.”
― Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance - Volume 4