Empress of All Seasons Quotes

“Silence is the cousin of invisibility.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Do not let your fear decide your fate.”
― emiko jean, Empress of All Seasons

“You should want to be better for yourself, not for someone else.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“I am a lean tiger in winter. Come for me. I dare you.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“This is true freedom, to love oneself enough not to care what others think.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“At one point, she’d thought Taro completed her. Now she realized that he didn’t. She was complete by herself.

Marriage and love, they aren’t achievements.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Not every happily-ever-after includes a man.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“I am the wind. None will capture me. None will remember me. None will see me.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Every weapon has a destiny.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“A weapon tempts violence, courts bloodshed. Once you’ve beckoned death, you cannot unbeckon it.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“If you train on all weapons, you master none.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Two opinions are always better than one." The girl smiled. "Especially when one of them is mine.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Porcelain bowls faded and gathered dust. Women and men grew old, their faces lined with age. With time, all things withered. Except your spirit. The soul always remained.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“You mustn’t believe that. To believe something gives it weight and meaning. It taunts the gods and goddesses to turn it true.” “You are too optimistic.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“Men are conditioned to take. Women are conditioned to give,”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“If I didn’t like girls, and you didn’t like eating seagulls, I would kiss you. - Hanako”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“The rope is holding! If I didn’t like girls, and you didn’t like eating seagulls, I would kiss you.” - Hanako”
― Emiko Jean , Empress of All Seasons

“You do not need us. You will rule on your own. - Kita (to Mari)”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“I'm very sorry, but from this moment, you're dead. - Mari”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“In the beginning, dark water flooded the earth.
Kita, the Goddess of Land and Rice, built a staircase out of lightning and stepped down from the sky.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons

“As a boy, Taro had been forced to memorize the lacework tunnels, an easy task, given his nimble mind. His brain stored millions of memories, each like a painting chronicling the seconds of his life.”
― Emiko Jean, Empress of All Seasons