The Red Scholar's Wake Quotes

“...she wore peach-coloured robes with imprints of moons and banyan trees. Her long hair flowed into the floor, turning into the vast expanse of the sky halfway down her back; it looked as though she was dragging the heavens behind her, beautiful and terrible.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake

“Xích Si opened her mouth to say something and then closed it. When mould set into a craft’s engines, sometimes the best thing was to dump it all and scour every trace of it from the tanks.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake

“Her eyes were two black holes into which Xích Si spiraled, and there was no end to her fall.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake

“Poetry was quiet and contemplative and beautiful – this was bloody, and messy, and the zither’s chords were just adding to the discordance. It felt as though someone was rifling through her entrails with the point of a blade. Yet it was strangely compelling – as the poet talked of ships tearing at each other in the night, and the cold light of the stars running like tears on their hull, and blood binding them all together, she couldn’t help but shiver.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake

“In overlay – where the contract had been – was now a picture of both of them kissing, gazing into each other’s eyes as if they were lost soulmates and the thread of fate had wound itself tightly between them.”
― Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake