Kunal

“Mata thanked everyone and drank himself. For the first time in his life, he didn’t feel alone in a crowd. He belonged—an unfamiliar but welcome sensation. It surprised him that he found it here, in this dark and sleazy bar, drinking cheap wine and eating bad food, among a group of people he would have considered peasants playing at being lords—like Krima and Shigin—just a few weeks ago.”
― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings

“The more perfect the ideals, the less ideal the methods.”
― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings