The Phoenix Crown Quotes

“To be vulnerable is not the same as being weak.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“There’s an invisible thread of red silk,” Ming Lee said, “that the gods tie to the fingers of two people whose destinies are meant to be joined. The thread brings them together eventually, no matter how far apart they are. No matter what hardships they face, no matter how much strain is put on that thread, it will not break.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“The virulent hatred Americans had for the Chinese in their midst, blaming them for crime and disease, branding them as lazy and corrupt.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“I love a party, but I love it even better when all the guests go home.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“The migraine hadn’t been so bad—only half a night of huddling in her darkened room with a cold-pack on her forehead, wishing she could scoop her eyes out with a spoon—”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“was hoping you might consider helping me save my life’s work—work that contributes in some small way to the world of knowledge, which is worth risking life and limb for, even if it isn’t as glamorous as a spotlit stage. But I haven’t really seen you help anyone but yourself, so perhaps I was expecting too much.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“It wasn’t enough for a woman to be talented, clever, or good. That wouldn’t save her.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown

“The well-meaning do love to give advice, don’t they? As if they know so much more than you, about something you’ve been living with for years.”
― Kate Quinn, The Phoenix Crown