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  • #1
    R.F. Kuang
    “War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
    tags: war

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    R.F. Kuang
    “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

  • #5
    R.F. Kuang
    “Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    R.F. Kuang
    “Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

  • #8
    R.F. Kuang
    “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

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    R.F. Kuang
    “I don't love you. And I can kill anything.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  • #12
    R.F. Kuang
    “We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
    R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #18
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #20
    George R.R. Martin
    “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #21
    George R.R. Martin
    “What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “If I look back I am lost.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “Nothing burns like the cold.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #25
    Jay Kristoff
    “A life without books is a life not lived.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

  • #26
    Jay Kristoff
    “There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

  • #27
    Jay Kristoff
    “Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

  • #28
    Jay Kristoff
    “Astrid was just as fierce a scholar as I was a swordsman. A girl who wielded books like blades.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

  • #29
    Jay Kristoff
    “De León. Ye live."
    '"Sadly."
    '"How?" he hissed.
    '"God didn't want me. And the devil was afraid to open the door.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

  • #30
    Jay Kristoff
    “My friends are the hill I die on.”
    Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire



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