The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)

by Ken Liu

Even if fighting meant certain defeat?

Evil existed in this world; it had to be confronted.

“Besides taking away our land, your ancestors also took away our gods.”

The secret to happiness is to plan for the worst but be ready to seize opportunities when they flash briefly like shooting stars in the night sky.

Be ready to seize opportunities when they flash briefly like shooting stars in the sky.

“Rufizo save me! Civilized men use words, not fists!”

All life is an experiment. Isn’t that what Father always says?

What has happened? Kuni asked himself. Who has committed such sacrilege?

No matter how carefully you planned things, fate intruded.

“Go not gentle into the eternal storm,” all the gods said together.

Could I repeat the feat of the emperor today and slay the great beasts?

They had succeeded in bottling lightning, in capturing the power of the gods.

The Four Placid Seas are as wide as the years are long.

A wild goose flies over a pond, leaving behind a voice in the wind.

A man passes through this world, leaving ...

How much longer could the marshal and the captain last?

To give up the chance to realize her dream of a more fair, more just Dara?

“Mewling child, cooing parent, Grand-souled companions, brothers, Wakeful weakness, Empathy that encompasses the world.

But was it strange to not want to die, to not want to leave your child behind?

Will you plunge Dara into civil strife?”

Why would her teacher be so careless?

Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment.

Wimshurst machine

Leyden ja...

M. V. Berry’s “Oriental Magic Mirrors and the Laplacian Image,” in European Journal of Physics 27.1, 2006 (page 109).

Slam-rod fire starters like those used by the Adüans have been used by the people of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands for generations.

“The Silk-Making Woman,” by Zhang Yu,

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories.

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