残次品 [Can Ci Pin] Quotes

“If I was given the ability to foretell one event in the future, I wish that that fate would tell me when you will walk into my life from the day I was born.
That way every day of my life would be making a step closer to you.
I will be hoping for tomorrow like a freezing traveler yearning for a warm fireplace, even if tomorrow will greet me with a storm or blizzard.
Because my yearning for you is so vivid that it could embellish every mired land and trenches in the world with a layer of gold.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“The heavy burden of trust and responsibility dropped onto Lu Bixing’s shoulders, but it didn’t suffocate him as he had expected. Instead, it felt like a heavy piece of armor that dropped and supported his injured body with a peerless layer of protection.
He was like a knight ready to fall on his knees that was suddenly given the courage to pick up his sword once again.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Remember that from now on, knowledge is more valuable than money, boundless curiosity is more precious than knowledge, and what’s more valuable than curiosity is the starry sky above our heads.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Now, the turbulent stars had finally returned back on a peaceful track.
Mankind is born from faith, and will die for their faith.
Mankind will be reborn from the fallen ashes of faith.
—END-”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Lu Bixing: “They interrupted my life’s biggest event; I was upset so I told them.”

Lin Jingheng asked in utter confusion: “Told them what?”

“I said that everything of mine, from heart to soul, every cell in my body belongs to you.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Why is he holding back anyway?
He repeated this line in his mind numerous times. He suddenly leaned forward, captured Lu Bixing’s lips with his own and closed his eyes. It was like he lost his balance while walking on a wire across skyscrapers, he fell down and continued to descend uncontrollably until he passed through the core of the planet into the vast void of space.
His soul ascended weightlessly while a rush of colors poured violently into his monochrome world, dazzling before his eyes until he felt completely disoriented.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“If we had any free will left, why would we believe in this nonsense?” she continued.
“If we had any free will left, how could we forget that anger, anxiety, pain, and foolishness were not defections of the human genes that we have to overcome, that they are the original faces of the human soul.
These ugly, spiteful, awful things inside your hearts that you would rather throw away are all part of mankind’s free will itself!”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Lu Bixing pulled him in closer as Lin Jingheng fell gently into his embrace while floating in mid-air. The force was so light it almost felt like two wisps of feathers gently brushing against each other in this distorted place while they were falling to the ground. But Lu Bixing felt as if the steel armor in his chest had finally cracked open after years of unshakable protection; the single crack quickly spread through the rest of his body like an expanding web, exposing the unsightly flesh within.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“As for Lin Jingheng.... he looked at that pair of eyes that could reflect the glows of starlight with a serene heart. That was the result of his careful and hard work he had spent half of his life on— healing his loved one.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“But my dearest first patron, I waited a whole day underground after you told me to wait two hours for you that day.
What about you? You said it yourself, that you would take me to Wolto when I'm fifty to see the Commander's mansion, didn't you?
You really think you can just go back on your own words like that because I love you?”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Lin Jingheng looked at him and strangely remembered the Starry Sea Academy on planet Beijing-β, that con artist of a headmaster that kept pouring out chicken soup to his poor students, then suddenly felt something grow inside his heart--

He had left the noble utopian land of Wolto for the cold Silver Fortress, then fell into the Heart of the Rose and wandered into the faraway Eighth Galaxy; now, he returned to where it all began on a completely different path
.
Lu Bixing had walked from beneath the starry dome of the ceremonial hall into the Milky Way City Command Post, and now seemed to have returned back under the same starry sky…but the sky above him was now much broader and eternal; it also didn’t cost six billion to build.

Both man and history trudged down the path of time across countless turbulences on this journey, numerous deaths and rebirths…only to return back to where everything all began.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“Lu Bixing’s vision blurred as he thought: This must be an illusion from spacetime distortion, right?
Otherwise, why couldn’t he feel that man’s heartbeat?
After what felt like a lifetime’s worth of wait, a slow beat finally came from that person’s chest.
Lu Bixing suddenly realized something. Whether it was burning hysteria or fervent joy, the number 6 relaxant was powerful enough to suppress everything, because all of these superficial emotions were simply no match for the thrill and impact of this belated sound of that heartbeat--
It shattered the starry heavens built upon millenniums of time, and shattered the individual soul named Lu Bixing.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“The heavy mech shook violently while the unstable energy sources within the wormhole clashed into each other, creating countless bright lights in the distance. The mech almost felt as if it was going to be swallowed up by the wormhole.
But who cared?
If he were to die in this distortion of spacetime, then his life would end with this kiss of a lifetime’s reunion.

My life couldn’t have ended in a more perfect circle , he thought.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“They said’---who are ‘they’?” Lin Jingheng responded in a rather calm voice. Before Lu Bixing could answer, though, he gestured to interrupt those words and said, “Listen carefully here, this goddamn piece of shit of a world did not ‘return me to you,’ I’m the one that came back to find you on my own. This ‘fate’ thing has never given me a good attitude for as long as I’ve lived; I was the one that broke out of the galactic prison, grappled my way out from the abyss, and ran back to you even if I had to crawl on all fours, do you hear me? There’s no bullshit ‘blessing’ here, what the fuck were you thinking!? I don’t even feel guilty -- who’s telling you to feel bad for something you never did? And who taught you to speak like a whiny bum begging for your next meal?”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]

“It was as if they two followed each other’s footsteps in a circle until they reunited, only to see how familiar those scars and dust engraved on each other’s bodies looked.”
― Priest, 残次品 [Can Ci Pin]