The Moon in the Palace Quotes

“I knew now: love and destiny were two wild horses that could not be curbed. They galloped in different directions and ran down different paths where streams of desire and hope would not converge. To follow one was to betray the other. To make one happy was to break the other's heart. Yet I supposed that was part of life, a lesson we had to learn. To grow up was also to give up, and to build the future was to dissolve the past. The only thing we could do was hope for the best, to believe that the horse we chose would find us a safe destination.”
― Weina dai randel, The Moon in the Palace

“The night garden felt like a home, with the glittering sky for the ceiling, the bushes our rug, and the dilapidated pavilion our bed. He lit up the place like a heart-warming hearth fire. He was the walls of my sanctuary, the food for my eyes, the scent of a home. He was everything.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“...children are birds, and a mother is the tree. No matter how far the birds fly, they always long for the tree to rest on.
But a tree will fall...
Even if it falls or dies, its roots delve deep into a child's heart and nourish it with her eternal thoughts.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“War is man’s business, not God’s,”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“shoot—“children are birds, and a mother is the tree. No matter how far the birds fly, they always long for the tree to rest on.” I stared at her. “But a tree will fall…” “Even if it falls or dies, its roots delve deep into a child’s heart and nourish it with her eternal thoughts.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“the most prominent feature on his face was his eyebrows. Long and thick, they looked as if a calligrapher had lost control when he drew them.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“I have no beginning nor an end,
I have no mother nor a friend.
Seldom do I give you warning or fear,
but when you think of me, you shall shed a tear.
So fair and just I'm known,
Like the wind and air that you cannot own,
On and on I shall continue,
When your heart hardens to a stone”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“children are birds, and a mother is the tree. No matter how far the birds fly, they always long for the tree to rest on.” I stared at her. “But a tree will fall…” “Even if it falls or dies, its roots delve deep into a child’s heart and nourish it with her eternal thoughts.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“Pero entonces lo comprendí. De algún modo, en algún momento de nuestras vidas, todos debíamos encontrar un sendero a través de las nubes de nuestros destinos y emprenderlo. Solos.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor—the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.
And there was nothing we could do about it, because we were simply a whim in his mind, a fancy in his bed, an accessory beside his pillow, nothing more. We provided threads for his rapture but never the fabric of his happiness.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace

“It was just as the proverb said, “When a tree falls, wretched monkeys have no choice but to scatter.”
― Weina Dai Randel, The Moon in the Palace