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“Poor dear,” Wendell said, bending to rub Shadow’s ears. “When I retake my throne, I shall dedicate a fleet of servants to his needs. They shall make for him a velvet bed in every room, with a fire burning beside each one, and the bones of
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“I don't love you. And I can kill anything.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Well, fuck the heavenly order of things. If getting married to a gross old man was her preordained role on this earth, then Rin was determined to rewrite it.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“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?”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
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