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“Hey,” Kitay said. “What’s so interesting over there?”
“Nothing,” Rin said. “Just gossip. Have you cracked the nature of the cosmos?”
“Not yet.” Kitay tossed his stick onto the dirt. “But give me a year or two. I’m getting close.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“A flaw of humanity,” said Parisa, shrugging. “The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal - that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“From the sounds of it, the Militia intended to simply knock the gates over with a battering ram.
Boom. Rin felt stone vibrating beneath her feet.
“How old are those gates?” She wondered out loud.
Boom.
“Older than this province,” said Venka. “Maybe as old as the Red Emperor. Lot of architectural value.”
“That’s a pity.”
“Isn’t it?”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic