Lucienne

“Without thinking they sank into a formation; back to back, fighting while covering each other’s blind spots…They were like a well-oiled machine. They were a spontaneously coordinated dance. They weren’t two parts of a whole, not quite, but they came close.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“They had a god to kill. A world to reshape. An Empress to overthrow.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“She began to burn herself again. She found release in the pain; it was comforting, familiar. It was a trade-off she was well used to. Success required sacrifice. Sacrifice meant pain. Pain meant success.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“She wanted to forget everything, to forget the war, to forget her gods. It was enough to simply be, to know that her friends were alive and that the entire world was not so dark after all.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War