Year of the Rat Quotes

“I stood alone in the alley, unruffled by the winds whispering with broken Yeouiju curses and lost souls. My single eye gleamed gold as I scented my prey’s fear.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“Since the Red Night fell, there have been three things I haven’t felt in months: a full belly, laughter, and the sun.

Today someone laughed.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“We are the gods now, I realized, gazing upon their weary faces one by one. Heaven help us.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“I told you we were returning with the Dragon King,” I called, adopting a fighting stance. Silver scales armored my forearms up to my shoulders. “But it was never him you should have been afraid of. I am the Queen of Air and Darkness. These are my people. And you are trespassing in my home.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“Normal is always according to someone,” she’d said. “I only ask whose normal it is. You only get one life, Sun-a, in a world that has seen millions go by. Now, do you want to live the life that millions already have, or do you want to live the life that no one has?”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“I stared at him. He loomed before me in the junk-cluttered alley with the grace of a prince but the mystery of a mythological being. He was neither quite here nor there. A creature who flashed his full glory for an instant in dreaming, but upon waking, left me questioning what I had seen. I had come here believing that at last I would know if the oldest vampyre in Maya’s line was friend or foe.

I still didn’t know, but I did know it was a risk I wanted to take.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“The Frost King’s vampyres thought they had won this city. They didn’t know the first thing about surviving in it.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“I asked the ink to part, and it did. I understood now that it was water of a different kind; spilled blood could be painted into words. Pain barely touched me, not from where I stood in the belly of deepest fury, every cloud from here to the East Sea answering my summons.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“I knew my strange, oversized family of fur and claws would go to the ends of South Korea and beyond for me. They would spend days in the clandestine laboratories of Yong Enterprises where the future was made and nights gallivanting around a terrifying and wondrous spirit world where the past was alive and well.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat

“I do know that Korea will never be the same again. Me? I want to run as a wolf at night but walk in the sun as a man. And I would like someone to run with—be they wolf or tiger, whether they howl or growl.”
― Heather Heffner, Year of the Rat