Jewel Box Quotes

“None of us can change what has happened to us, the clawed creature said. But if we are lucky, we live. If we are lucky, we do not lose more than we can afford. Much regrows. Claws, tail, teeth, even the vaporous stuff the poets call the soul. And bitter experience provides material for art. Ask a shipwreck. Ask an oyster.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“For it was not the loss of the flower alone that wounded her, but the sudden revelation that the world and its pins and brooches had been made for such as the butcher's boy and not for one like herself.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“I will tell you about your family and the different places your parents grew up, and where your ancestors came from. I will grow roots for you, so that you are not adrift and alone in the dark. You will know where you came from. You will know where you are going.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“Remember how you were soft and easily hurt, before your skin hardened to ceramic, your heart to steel. What it meant to break and ache and heal.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box

“Those who chose evil over good while alive, despite being able to discern between them, find themselves choosing the same in death," the lion god said. "As a cart's wheels dig a rut in the road, so habit carves its path in the soul.”
― E Lily Yu, Jewel Box