A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

by Arkady Martine

the closeness of people who were willing to die in starfire brilliance, as easy as breathing.

Emperor Twelve Solar-Flare,

Two Amaranth.

“Within each cell is a bloom of ch...

loved the hungry and clever beast they made together, they her claws and her lungs and her eyes, and she their guiding mind.

Haha chilling

Third Palmers

Eleven Laurel

Nine Propulsion.

Five Agate—

Six Direction...

Nineteen Adze,

THE Jasmine Throat,

cured meats,

Haha - still popular, and not causing enough cancers to get banned.

we don’t know what this war is going to be like, but you’ll probably need to eat, and shoot people, and patch up your wounded.

or things

we don’t know what this war is going to be like, but you’ll probably need to eat, and shoot people, and patch up your wounded.

Haha

Anhamemat Gate

the Heritage Board.

Aknel Amnardbat, Councilor for Heritage

At the heart of language is a stem That balances a thousand syllables.

Seventeen Frame, Information Ministry

MAHIT

Haha chilling

Aknel Amnardbat

Dekakel Onchu

With icy clarity,

And icier still:

What a person promised when they were half letting their imago lead them into choices they would never have made before they were part of a chain of living memory.

Teixcalaanli Judiciary’s Mist agents,

Haha simile

Haha romance

Doesn’t she know that if they don’t figure out a way to communicate with the aliens, Lsel Station will be next? Question

Haha

Mahit could imagine growing into a woman like that, if she lived so long—

Three Seagrass just behind her to the left, snapping back into place like a detached limb suddenly remade.

Eight Antidote

the Emperor

Simile extended

Nineteen Adze

Eleven Laurel

It wasn’t rusted. It was stained. Blood, old enough it should have flaked off.

The tip of a spear, like the points of the sun-spear throne.

Simile

I already knew that I believed in his Teixcalaan.

“It didn’t last,”

It never lasts.

“Nothing does,”

A true thing, from the land of being a grown-up.

“You’re eleven, little spy,”

“Sometimes I’m amazed that Six Direction handed me Teixcalaan after I made sure of that.

Three Azimuth