Marco Polo (TV Series)

The Scholar's Pen (2014)

Chin Han: Jia Sidao

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Quotes 

• Jia Sidao : There are so many rules. It is the rules that build the walls. To keep us apart. And no matter how we wish to break those walls down the rules allow no margin. So there we are, resting our hands on either side of the divide.

  Sorga : No matter the side, we are just people. That's why I did what I did. For you people.

  Jia Sidao : Do you believe that to be true?

  Sorga : I believe your heart and your mind are true to one another.

• Empress Chabi : You are a free man, Jia Sidao. Free from responsibility, free from blame, free to stake your claim wherever you see fit. *Outside* the palace. You will always be a citizen of the Song.

  Jia Sidao : If only that were true.

• Jia Sidao : [reciting]  I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Do you know this proverb?

  Monk : All too well.

  Jia Sidao : Do you believe in it?

  Monk : I do not judge the decisions that you have made, and I will not understand until you set a scholar's pen to parchment.

  [laying pen down defiantly] 

• Jia Sidao : [enters ceremony hall bloodied from fighting]  Are you prepared to take your throne, my Emperor?

  Little Boy Emperor : Yes.