“Destroying what someone else cherished never brought back what you yourself had lost. All it did was spread grief like a contagion.”
―
Shelley Parker-Chan,
She Who Became the Sun
“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“What someone is means nothing about what kind of person they are. Truth is in actions.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Denying desire only made yourself vulnerable to those who were smart enough to see what you couldn't even acknowledge to yourself.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“He had done what he had to do, and in doing so he had destroyed the world.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She didn't just want greatness. She wanted the world.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Learn to want something for yourself, Ma Xiuying. Not what someone says you should want. Not what you think you should want. Don’t go through life thinking only of duty. When all we have are these brief spans between our nonexistences, why not make the most of the life you’re living now? The price is worth it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“If you want a fate other than what Heaven gave you, you have to want that other fate. You have to struggle for it. Suffer for it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She saw someone who seemed neither male nor female, but another substance entirely: something wholly and powerfully of its own kind. The promise of difference, made real.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“I can do this. I can learn. I can survive.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“How could her body be a woman’s body, if it didn’t house a woman?” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Inside her there was only the perfect, blank brightness of belief and desire. Desire is the cause of all suffering. The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself. With all her will, she directed the thought to Heaven and the watching statues: Whatever suffering it takes, I can bear it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“You never realized that it wasn’t your name they were going to call, exhorting you to reign for ten thousand years. It was mine” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“A woman gambles all of herself, body and future, when she marries. That's more courageous than any risk a bureaucrat takes when it concerns only his face, or his wealth” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“People said that a single day without a dear friend could feel like three autumns.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She was grieving her life as she never had before, and it was all this monk's fault for having conjured the impossible fantasy of a world in which she was free to desire.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“What someone is means nothing about what kind of person they are. Truth is in actions.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Denying desire only made yourself vulnerable to those who were smart enough to see what you couldn't even acknowledge to yourself.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“He had done what he had to do, and in doing so he had destroyed the world.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She didn't just want greatness. She wanted the world.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Learn to want something for yourself, Ma Xiuying. Not what someone says you should want. Not what you think you should want. Don’t go through life thinking only of duty. When all we have are these brief spans between our nonexistences, why not make the most of the life you’re living now? The price is worth it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“If you want a fate other than what Heaven gave you, you have to want that other fate. You have to struggle for it. Suffer for it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She saw someone who seemed neither male nor female, but another substance entirely: something wholly and powerfully of its own kind. The promise of difference, made real.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“I can do this. I can learn. I can survive.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“The body became used to exercise, particular sounds and sensations, or even physical pain. But it was strange how shame was something you never became inured to: each time hurt just as much as the first.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“How could her body be a woman’s body, if it didn’t house a woman?” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“Inside her there was only the perfect, blank brightness of belief and desire. Desire is the cause of all suffering. The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself. With all her will, she directed the thought to Heaven and the watching statues: Whatever suffering it takes, I can bear it.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“You never realized that it wasn’t your name they were going to call, exhorting you to reign for ten thousand years. It was mine” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“A woman gambles all of herself, body and future, when she marries. That's more courageous than any risk a bureaucrat takes when it concerns only his face, or his wealth” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“People said that a single day without a dear friend could feel like three autumns.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
“She was grieving her life as she never had before, and it was all this monk's fault for having conjured the impossible fantasy of a world in which she was free to desire.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
