The Teahouse Fire Quotes

“I watched those two girls beside me, the very fact of them: their overlapping hands, their complicit laughter. I had never forgiven Yukako for not being in love with me. I forgave her.”
― Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire

“When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. I walked into the shrine through the red arch and struck the bell. I bowed twice. I clapped twice. I whispered to the foreign goddess and bowed again. And then I heard the shouts and the fire. What I asked for? Any life but this one.”
― Ellis Avery, The Teahouse Fire