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#1

“She was a goddess. She was a monster. She‘d nearly destroyed this country. And then she‘d given it one last, gasping chance to live.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#2

“The problem with knowledge, is it's inexhaustible craving. the more of it you have, the less you feel you know”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

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#3

“They'd made the mistake of teaching him he could survive”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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#4

“I am a daughter of Lethe, and the wolves are at the door.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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#5

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

tags: war

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#6

“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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#7

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

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#8

“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

tags: faith, god, human

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#9

“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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#10

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

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#11

“But the boy already had a god of his own. And the gods were selfish.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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#12

“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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#13

“She liked listening to Nezha talk. He was so hopeful, so optimistic, and so stupid.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

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#14

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

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#15

“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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#16

“He brushed his lips against her forehead as he drove the knife deeper into her back.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: backstabbing, heartbreaking

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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“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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#20

“Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#21

“The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#22

“Dying was easy. Living was so much harder—that was the most important lesson Altan had ever taught her.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#23

“I‘m exactly what they deserve,” she said. “They don‘t want peace, they want revenge. I‘m it.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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#24

“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

tags: fantasy-young-adult, historical-fantasy, r-f-kuang, the-poppy-war

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#25

“She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

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#26

“She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

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#27

“He loves her.
Of this he’s certain.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

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#28

“Who is the true god?" ... She's the only divine thing he's ever believed in.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

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#29

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

tags: grief, heart, nikolai-lantsov, pain, protect, scars, zoya-nazyalensky

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#30

“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, king-of-scars, leigh-bardugo, nikolai-lantsov

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