Strike the Zither Quotes

“Before it all burns, I wanted to write to you. I wanted to tell you, for what it’s worth, that I don’t expect you to forgive me. Blame me, or blame the heavens for placing us on different sides of this war. May we meet in another life.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“You wound me
I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“When i was mortal, I thought myself a god.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“We’re all so transient. We live and we die; we forget and we’re forgotten. The earth claims our bodies and strangers claim our names. Only empresses are remembered - and the ones who kill them. The ones who break empires, or restore them to their rightful rulers.

Ren is my path to being remembered.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“One ship sinks. Another catches fire. One lordess falls. Another rises.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“We’re all so transient. We live and we die; we forget and we’re forgotten. The earth claims our bodies and strangers claim our names.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“People are more predictable than they care to admit.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“War isn’t easy, Cloud. Our means cannot be as honorable as our cause.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“Now, how to knife him without ruining my robes …”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“Older doesn’t always mean brighter, as evidenced by Ren’s swornsisters.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“We’re strategists. We don’t need to explain things to each other.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither

“But I've come a long way from farting over the edge of the sky.”
― Joan He, Strike the Zither