Phoenix Extravagant Quotes

“Jebi was torn between saying 'You are embarrassing me' and 'I am going to take up my brush and make a painting of you that they will talk about for the next 10,000 years'. They said neither.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“The studio also featured a large wall calendar with cryptic abbreviations, presumably reminders. Also doodles of gears, sprockets, and malformed genitalia, because artists were artists.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“Phoenix-colored light burned behind the eye holes of the mask, like fire and fire's yearning.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“I oppose war; but I also oppose slaughter in all its forms. There wasn’t time for a more peaceful solution.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“I’ll go up first,” Vei said. “Are you feeling steady enough to ride?”
Jebi squeaked. “Ride?”
Vei’s mouth quirked at the corners. “Can you think of anything likely to be faster than a dragon this size? Especially since Arazi assures me that it can fly.”
{I can definitely fly,} Arazi said with disturbing confidence.
{Have you ever tried it?}
{I’m a dragon. I can fly.}”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“Some long-ago crafter had labored over this box. Someone had owned it, or received it as a gift. Someone might have prettied themself up using the cosmetics within, some of which remained as a faint residue. Someone might have danced afterward, or written poems, or met a lover.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“My father told me once, when I was young, that no one wins a war except the crows.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“They didn’t subscribe to the realist schools of painting that had invaded from the West; they preferred the more usual convention that portrayed more important things larger than less important things, the way any sensible person would.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“Since you’re so keen on working for the conquerors, you might as well rely on them for your housing too. I’m not going to share my roof with a collaborator.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

“Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant