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#1

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#2

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#3

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

tags: war

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#4

“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#5

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

tags: war

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#6

“They were monsters!" Rin shrieked. "They were not human!"

"Have you ever considered" he said slowly "that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#7

“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

tags: great, mediocre, power, risk, war

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#8

“When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#9

“It’s easy to be brave. Harder to know when not to fight.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#10

“But how does the existence or nonexistence of the gods affect me? Why does it matter how the universe came to be?"
"Because you're part of it. Because you exist. And unless you want to only ever be a tiny modicum of existence that doesn't understand its relation to the grander web of things, you will explore.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#11

“Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn't fit your present understanding of the world.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

tags: supernatural, understanding

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#12

“A rational explanation eluded her.
Because the answer could not be rational. It was not founded in military strategy. It was not because of a shortage of food rations, or because of the risk of insurgency or backlash. It was, simply, what happened when one race decided the other was insignificant.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#13

“Fear was impossible to eradicate. But so was the will to survive.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#14

“War was not a game, where one fought for honor and admiration, where masters would keep her from sustaining any real harm. War was a nightmare.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#15

“If you were the victim, what could you say to make your tormentor recognize you as human? How did you get your enemy to recognize you at all?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#16

“Well, fuck the heavenly order of things.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#17

“We are not madmen. But how can we convince anyone of this, when the rest of the world believes it so?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#18

“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to imagine that she could make that comparison?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

tags: genocide, justice, war

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#19

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: destroy, fire, nature, pity, togetherness, water

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#20

“Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: fight, fire, power, togetherness, water, wind

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#21

“People will seek to use you or destroy you. If you want to live, you must pick a side. So do not shirk from war, child. Do not flinch from suffering. When you hear screaming, run toward it.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

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#22

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

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#23

“If nothing lasted and the world did not exist, all that meant was that reality was not fixed. The illusion she lived in was fluid and mutable, and could be easily altered by someone willing to rewrite the script of reality.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: alternative-reality, existence, illusion, reality, world

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#24

“But eventually, you'll have to ask yourself precisely what you're fighting for. And you'll have to find a reason to live past vengeance.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: fight, fighting, live, purpose, vengeance

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#25

“She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: defenseless, looking, war, warrior, weaponry

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#26

“You asked how large my sorrow is. And I answered, like a river in spring flowing east.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: li-yu, sorrow

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#27

“The anger was a shield. The anger helped her to keep from remembering what she'd done. Because as long as she was angry, then it was okay — she'd acted within reason. She was afraid that if she stopped being angry, she might crack apart.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

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#28

“Our dead don't leave us. They'll hunt you as long as you let them.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: dead, hunted

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#29

“And you think you're on the brink of madness, you think that this moment is going to be when you finally snap, but it's not.
"How do you know that?"
"Because it gets easier every time. Eventually you learn to exist on the precipice of insanity.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: insanity, obstacles, overcoming

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#30

“It's not about who you are, it's about how they see you. And once you're mud in this country, you're always mud.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

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