19 Quotes by M.L. Wang

This... you are my story... and I was so selfish, so tied to that shadow that I missed it. And my son, I – I’m so sorry it took me this long to understand. I’m sorry – ” the words caught in her throat, choking her, until pain shot through her chest, forcing her to let them out. “I never loved you the way I should have.

But unencumbered by the tight kimono or the childish cowardice that had bound her for years, she had become a new creature, more fluid and boundless than a girl but more solid than a shadow – a woman of lightning sinew and roaring blood.

She evaded and drove her hairpin into the side of his neck, burying the hair ornament all the way up to the flowery bauble at the end. He choked, blood spattering from his mouth, and clawed at his throat.

Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.

Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.

I don’t know if you noticed, Headmaster, but the enemy is a tornado. What are you going to do?” “Kill it,” Takashi said.

Was the headmaster serious about challenging people to single combat? You guys really still do that?” “How else would we settle our differences?” “I don’t know. Talking?

Stay,” she said softly and tugged him in until their bodies leaned together. “Stay and watch the sun set with me.

This child is our blood. She belongs to all of us, and it is our responsibility to find her safe.