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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?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“No one had ever kissed me with such love, and it occurred to me that happiness can reach such depths that it becomes something akin to grief.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them,looks after them when they are small;but in the actual help on the farm ,the upholding of the family name,all belong to the father.”
― Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood

“Look to your records, cleric. Honor is a light that brings trouble. Shadows are safer by far.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service?”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“A fighter who will only go into battle when they're at their best fights for pleasure and not principle. The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we'll only defend them in the sun.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“I don't know."
"How is that good enough?"
He took her hands in his. "It isn't. It isn't good enough and nothing will be for a while, because that's part of what loss is, an absence of goodness and happiness taht cant be reason with or diminished.”
― Evan Winter, The Fires of Vengeance

“She wasn't respected here, but she was feared, and fear had been very kind to Geeta.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“If the natural world afforded them no protection, then a supernatural story might. A way of terrifying men into considering a woman's well-being from time to time.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“Men like him would always look at her and see the things they were glad they weren't: weak, small, timid, powerless. Let them. She'd expended so much energy vying for a broken seat at an uneven table.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“This was the version of her who had survived and there was no sense in apologizing for being a survivor.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said.
-'Then why are you writing them in a book?'
-'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.'
-'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?'
-'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“She was known to be kind, which you should never confuse with being gracious or beautiful or courteous.”
― Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands

“The world is built on who carries what and for who.”
― Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands

“It is not weak to avoid war,” I said, and my voice broke. Tears pricked at my eyes, and I let them. “It is the strongest thing you could do, to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.”
― Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

“Because those who are good question themselves. Because those who are good always wonder if there was a better way, a way that could have helped more and hurt less. That feeling is why you are good.”
― Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

“It is admirable to seek out more knowledge, so long as you form your own opinions.”
― Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

“If a woman crafted by the gods themselves could be consigned to this fate, what hope was there for a woman born of a woman?”
― Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi

“The future could not be taught by the past.”
― Vaishnavi Patel, Kaikeyi