Chapters

I had always thought “I can’t” was just an excuse. That it wasn’t “I can’t,” but “I won’t.” If you […]

When do people truly believe in God? When they offer prayers to the heavens for the sake of idol worship.

I have never lamented the helplessness of being a child this bitterly. No matter how much knowledge one accumulates, simply

Memories one doesn’t want to remember sink in far more vividly, far more deeply, than happy ones ever could. Mistakes,

He would be this person’s ally alone—no matter the time, no matter the circumstances, no matter who turned against them.

It hadn’t been so long that one could call it “a while.” Yet it felt as though they had been

Being told it felt “refreshing” didn’t quite fit. The sense of loss outweighed everything else, and perhaps that alone proved

Was an ending truly supposed to be this quiet? She had always imagined it would be far more painful, more

The smell of ink, the scratching sound of the pen nib, the shadows cast by stacked sheets of paper. It

Lu Hang felt a twinge of unease when Bai Huang said that. “How much are we actually talking?” “A few