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“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.”
― Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917
― Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917
“It occurred to him now that people are defined much more by their association with death than by what they do in life. Poor thing, she’s a widow, they say. She lost her mother when she was ten to cancer. I’ve been immune to all this, he thought.”
― The Association of Small Bombs
― The Association of Small Bombs
“Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present. For every decision there were a million others he could have made. For every India, a Pakistan of possibilities.”
― The Association of Small Bombs
― The Association of Small Bombs
“Her voice, thin and reedy, faded without echo into the frigid air. But she screamed it again, and then again, and then again. It felt so good to say that she'd survived, that she'd fucking finally come out on top, that she didn't even care that she was screaming to corpses.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
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