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“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“This life you've chosen, you won't get many moments like this again. But it's the nights like this that keep you alive. All you think about is who you're fighting against. But that? That's what you're fighting for.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
“She didn’t know how to stop. She didn’t know how to want anything else. She didn’t know how to be anything other than a soldier, and if there was nothing left to fight, then something was wrong with the world.”
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“But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
“Fire: the heat in your blood in the midst of a fight, the kinetic energy that makes your heart beat faster.” Jiang tapped his chest. “Water: the flowing of force from your muscles to your target, from the earth up through your waist, into your arms. Air: the breath you draw that keeps you alive. Earth: how you stay rooted to the ground, how you derive energy from the way you position yourself against the floor. And metal, for the weapons you wield. A good martial artist will possess all five of these in balance. If you can control each of these with equal skill, you will be unstoppable”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
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