Feathered Serpent Quotes

“Who says women are water? They are fire. A girl in love is a blazing fire; she rages through all fuel and nothing can stop her; she burns others and then burns herself. She burns all that surrounds her to the ground and from the ashes she continues to spark and sizzle. Women are possessed of that kind of love that is catastrophic, unforgettable, overwhelming.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“Although citizens of the same country who spoke the same language, they belonged to two different worlds. These worlds were far apart and their chances of meeting slim. But an encounter that happens against such long odds is bound to produce stories.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“When hypocrisy is rife, people begin wearing masks. But when a mask is worn too long it may turn into the flesh and become a permanent feature. To win public support, people must devote themselves completely to a bigger cause than those that grow out of their own ambition.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“You use tomorrow to lie to people. But more people care about today.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“A child ask his mother, 'Why are we still eating cabbage? Yesterday's song said our tomorrow will be sweeter than honey.' Mother replies, 'Silly goose, there is a tomorrow after tomorrow. The tomorrow in the song is far away from us.' If the mother said, 'Tomorrow is never coming,' what would the child do?”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“In the herd of obedient followers, I cannot avoid being singled out as a scapegoat to be slaughtered. Truth is brutally ravaged and castrated. She weeps, demands her true identity be returned to her. But in this society smart people don't play jokes with their own life. Truth becomes cheap, meaningless, and as tasteless as a marriage without love.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“She immediately began to think about what she longed for, and she always knew she had been longing for something, living in her inner world, feeling the outer world distance and strange. This was the source of her strange behavior and it made her absentminded and awkward and causing those near her, including her own family, to laugh at her and mistrust her. Their scorn was palpable and she began to believe they were right - she was useless. Her existence was meaningless. Having once believed in herself she was now embarrassed and filled with self-pity.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“Xuanming did not respond; her stormy temper was like a man's ejaculation. Once discharged, it went flat quickly”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent

“One often wonders why those who are noisy are not heard, while those who have been reduced to shadows can establish a huge presence.”
― Xu Xiaobin, Feathered Serpent