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“If you hold the fate of the country in your hands, if you have accepted your obligation to your people, then your life ceases to be your own.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“In a well-ordered universe...”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“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

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Forgiveness is different from absolution.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo