The Veiled Throne
Ken Liu
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can't force anyone to live a story that doesn't feel true to them.”
“The stories we love the most aren't stories about who we are, but who we could become.”
“So much of learning, decided Théra, consisted of forgetting how much you already knew.”
“Everyone is a storyteller,” he said. “That’s how we make sense of this life we live. Misfortune and affliction test us with one blow after another, most of which we don’t deserve. We have to tell ourselves a story about why to make all the random manipulations of fate and fortune bearable.”
“The scars left in minds were invisible, but they dictated the course of lives as much as physical disfigurements.)”
“What should I do?” “You must figure that out yourself,” said the empress. “Your instinct is to push for radical changes, to eliminate injustices in one stroke. That isn’t, in itself, wrong. But when you realize you’ve made a mistake that affects the lives of many, you must also bear the consequences.”
“They say writing is a kind of death for the truth. Once something is written down, the logograms usurp the place of the ideas they represent and are mere shadows of. While a living voice can respond and adapt, the dead logograms stand mute, unable to answer an accusation or offer an apologia. Writing breeds hypocrisy because the clever may justify any barbarism by paying the writings of the sages ritualistic obeisance.”
“There was an impatience in his movements and expression, as though he was bored by the moment he lived in and couldn’t wait to get to the next.”
“The world is infinite, but the lives of the mortals are finite. Nurture and nature are both powerless before all-devouring Time.”
“The nature of all humankind was corrupt and there was nothing new under the sun.”
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