A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine

This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.

THE problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.

Better to take action than to be paralyzed by the thousands of shifting possibilities.

whoever inscribes the history has an agenda and that agenda’s usually half dramatics