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    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war
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    R.F. Kuang
    “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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    R.F. Kuang
    “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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    R.F. Kuang
    “You humans always think you’re destined for things, for tragedy or for greatness. Destiny is a myth. Destiny is the only myth. The gods choose nothing. You chose.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Power dictates acceptability,”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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    R.F. Kuang
    “But I warn you, little warrior. The price of power is pain.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
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    R.F. Kuang
    “We don't die so much as we return to the void. We dissolve. We lose our ego. We change from being just one thing to becoming everything. Most of us, at least.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: death-and-dying
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Hate was a funny thing. It gnawed at her insides like poison. It made every muscle in her body tense, made her veins boil so hot she thought her head might split in half, and yet it fueled everything she did. Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: hate, motivation, revenge
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    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #10
    R.F. Kuang
    “Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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  • #11
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #12
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #14
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #15
    R.F. Kuang
    “Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: cosmos, life-and-death, material-world, reincarnation
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  • #16
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #17
    R.F. Kuang
    “Nothing lasts,'" said Nezha, at the same time that Kitay said, "'The world doesn't exist.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: chapter-11, chen-kitay, kitay, nezha, the-dragon-republic, the-poppy-war, yin-nezha
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  • #18
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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    R.F. Kuang
    “His hand went into the skimmer's hull, an inch from her head. She didn't flinch. She turned her head slowly, trying to pretend her heart wasn't slamming against her chest.
    'You missed,' she said calmly.
    Nehza pulled his hand away from the hull. Blood trickled down his knuckles from four crimson fots.
    She should have been afraid, but when she searched his face, she couldn't find a shred of anger. Just fear.
    She had no respect for fear.
    'I don't want to hurt you,' he said.
    'Of, trust me.' Her lip curled. 'You couldn't.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: anger, defiance, fear, respect, retaliation, soldiers, stubborn, violence, war, warriors
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    R.F. Kuang
    “People are fragile and desperate fools. They don’t know what’s real and what’s false, so they’ll cling to their little truths, because it’s better than imagining that their world might not matter so much after all.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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  • #21
    R.F. Kuang
    “I have tamed a land created to wither humans away until they are polished bone. Do not think to defy me.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: fantasy, power, wonder
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Our world is a dream of the gods. Maybe they have other dreams. But all we have is this story unfolding, and in the script of this world, nothing's going to bring Altan back to life.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: dream, gods, life-and-death, script, story, world
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    R.F. Kuang
    “in the abstract she knew this truth, that to the cosmos they were fundamentally irrelevant, that they came from dust and returned to dust and ash. And she should have taken comfort in that, but in that moment she didn’t want to be temporary and immaterial;”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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  • #24
    R.F. Kuang
    “Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
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    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #26
    R.F. Kuang
    “I am the force of creation, I am
    the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I
    am a god.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
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  • #27
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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  • #28
    R.F. Kuang
    “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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    R.F. Kuang
    “She recognized the way he was looking at her. It was how she’d once looked at Altan. It was the way she’d seen Daji look at Riga—that look of wretched, desperate, and reproachful loyalty. It said, Do it. Take what you want, it said. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
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    R.F. Kuang
    “She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
    tags: history, rebecca-kuang, the-burning-god, the-poppy-war
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