Lucienne

“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

“Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world. I need you to suspend your disbelief. I need you to simply accept that these things are possible.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“She was all of herself. She was whole, intact.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“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