In the Watchful City Quotes

“White is the color of death,” La Sombra says as the shadow grows. “The color of pictures and clothes and bones left untended and eaten by the suns. But black?” Her eyes glitter in the light of the dancing flames. “Black is the color of life. When you dig into damp, dark dirt to plant a seed or look at the space between stars, wondering—that’s life.”
― S. Qiouyi Lu, In the Watchful City

“I may yet be reborn. We may yet reincarnate and meet each other again. The Convergence still exists outside the Crown; that much is true. But now that I am not a duarch but one of the people, I shall live as they do—with the expectation that life is finite. I will be buried next to you, and everything we are and were, every complexity, every contradiction, will be from then on forever unknowable.”
― S. Qiouyi Lu, In the Watchful City

“you don’t need to be a kitsune to be someone else. that’s the easy part, ... what’s harder is being yourself so completely that there is still a you, no matter the form you hold.”
― S. Qiouyi Lu, In the Watchful City