The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
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“Power dictates acceptability,”
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“I believe in gods as a cultural reference. As metaphors. As things we refer to to keep us safe because we can’t do anything else, as manifestations of our neuroses. But not as things that I truly trust are real. Not as things that hold actual consequence for the universe.”
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“If there is a divine creator, some ultimate moral authority, then why do bad things happen to good people? And why would this deity create people at all, since people are such imperfect beings?”
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“From ashes we came and to ashes we return . . .”
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War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.”
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