My Fair Concubine Quotes

“Thank the heavens for tea. How did people ever come together without it?”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“So many little moments. She remembered them, too. She’d held them close to her breast as secret memories that only she held dear. But she’d been mistaken.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Saving face was only important for protecting the people he cared for. What use was honor, when he would live for ever in regret?”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“All those days, writing her name over and over like a lovesick scholar. Wasn’t he quite the tragic hero?”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“I want you to ruin me,’ she said as he came to the bed. ‘Take everything. Render me unsuitable for anyone else.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“I would give it all up,’ he rasped. She must have heard wrong. Her throat closed so tight she had to fight for the next breath. ‘I would give it all up for you,’ Fei Long said again, stronger this time. She staggered back a step as he came forwards. ‘Yan Ling.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Yan.’ He pressed his lips against her hair and embraced her tighter. The effort made his wound ache, but the pain meant nothing if he could only hold her. ‘You’ll be all right. I’ll take care of everything.’ He needed very much for those words to mean something.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Forget about debt and duty for a moment, fool. There are more important things in life.’ For once, Bai Shen cast aside his usual humour and bravado. ‘The sun rises in the west today. Li Bai Shen is lecturing me,’ Fei Long said. ‘Snow falls in the summer. Chang Fei Long is making a joke.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Bai Shen snorted. ‘That head of yours, Chang Fei Long, it’s hard as rock. I don’t understand what goes through it.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Fei Long would remember never to underestimate the resourcefulness of women.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“He tilted his head to take the soup and swallowed obediently, barely tasting it. ‘Yan Ling,’ he began, as she turned to dip the spoon. ‘Stop talking.’ She fed him again before swiping the back of her hand harshly over her eyes. ‘Really, Fei Long. Stop talking.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“They had to keep their distance. Yan Ling came closer anyway. ‘The only hours of the day when I’m truly awake…’ her lower lip trembled ‘…are when I’m with you.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“She pressed the back of her hand over her mouth as she tried to compose herself. He could hear the catch in her breath. Her face revealed a flood of emotions: yearning, disappointment, despair. The two of them were like twin mirrors set against one another. Yan Ling reflected everything that he kept hidden. He wanted so much to take away the pain.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“She tried to mimic his technique in her own deliberate manner. Fei Long waited patiently for her to finish with his head bent close to watch her work. This was his subtle, silent apology. No words. Just a small bit of gentleness to counter his earlier harshness.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“You have a good memory,’ he said at one point. It might have been the very first compliment he’d ever paid her.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine

“Li Bai Shen? He’s beautiful and no one knows it better than Li Bai Shen himself. But you are an absolute failure at matchmaking.”
― Jeannie Lin, My Fair Concubine