Quotes from Shadows on the Moon

“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'

A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“People trust their eyes above all else- but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better.” “Hurting”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

“And together we disappeared into the darkness swift and silent as shadows on the moon.”
― Zoë Marriott, quote from Shadows on the Moon

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