The Nightblood Prince Quotes

“For men like Siwang, the only thing more dangerous than his hate was his love”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“But while I could love Rong Siwang the boy, I refused to love Rong Siwang the prince who wanted to rule the world.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“What use is all the wealth and luxury if my world is confined to a prison they decorate as a palace?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“What if the thing Siwang loves isn’t me, but the prophecy?” My loudest fear, uttered in the quietest whisper”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“To unsuspecting eyes, Siwang was a dream too beautiful and perfect to be true. Pristine in his silk robes the color of midnight, easily swallowing the crimson of all the blood that stained his hands”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I want a life beyond the palace walls, and to do more with my life than be a wife and a mother. If I must die for that kind of life, then I will.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“To be loved and doted on by one’s husband should be a basic necessity, not something to be admired,” I shot back”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I could not turn back time and keep the prophecy from being spoken. However, I did have command over the present that controlled what would happen tomorrow. Time was a river that flowed endless.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“A prophecy was just words, strung together. If my fate was written in the stars, then I would fly up to heaven and rewrite it.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“But what if I didn’t want his light? What if I wanted to be my own light?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“This was the way of men. As daughters, we were the property of our fathers. As wives, we were the property of our husbands. And one day, if we ever outlived our husbands, we would become the property of our sons.
Whether empress or peasant, we women were never our own.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“If this was my life, my body, shouldn’t I get a say in what happened to it, and how I wanted to live?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“My earliest memories were of the questions I’d asked my father.
What use is power, without freedom? What good is the life of an empress if she is a prisoner chained by rules and tradition and others’ opinions?
Questions my father didn’t know how to answer.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“If I was really a fallen goddess, destined to bestow my husband with glory, why did I dream only of bloodshed and a capital in flames, never glory?”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“I was the empress-to-be, but an empress still had to bend to the will of a man”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“For I didn’t want to hear about that life. I wanted to live it.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“Why should my voice sound the quietest in this crowded room of men, set on dictating every aspect of my existence?
Who gave them the right?
My hundreds of questions boiled and fumed like tiny sparks hungry to be set ablaze.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince

“Nowhere is safe in the times of tyrants, my dear.”
― Molly X. Chang, The Nightblood Prince