The Morgue Keeper Quotes

“They shared indescribable pain. They had loved, they'd been loved, they had triumphed, they had lost. They were still alive. They wanted still to live, and more, to love again, despite.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper

“He wanted to look away but couldn’t. Her face was pearlescent and fanatical. 'Never forget, ever—you are under the surveillance of our revolutionary masses,' she said. She pointed to the door. 'Now get out of here.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper

“He wanted to look away but couldn’t. Her face was pearlescent and fanatical. “Never forget, ever—you are under the surveillance of our revolutionary masses,” she said. She pointed to the door. “Now get out of here.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper

“Throughout the city anything that moved raised clouds of yellowy dust. Women with straw baskets trudged along in their cloth shoes, licking their lips and coughing. The men stood beneath awnings and wilted trees sweating as they smoked. The heat had been foreordained. There would be no respite. On the corner of every block the so-called news blared from the omnipresent speakers.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper

“Torture, Qing Yuan thought, had become a spectacle. Few if any had considered how far they'd had to stoop to embrace a joy born of savagery.”
― Ruyan Meng, The Morgue Keeper