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"The writing style/voice differs a lot from the main character’s inner dialogue vs how she speaks w some other characters — it’s throwing me off a bit. very pretty settings, though. this book kind of needed an intro world building chapter, like a legend or something, to give a crash course to ppl unfamiliar w Chinese mythology, but I’m just enjoying the vibes for now" — Apr 03, 2026 10:10PM
"The writing style/voice differs a lot from the main character’s inner dialogue vs how she speaks w some other characters — it’s throwing me off a bit. very pretty settings, though. this book kind of needed an intro world building chapter, like a legend or something, to give a crash course to ppl unfamiliar w Chinese mythology, but I’m just enjoying the vibes for now" — Apr 03, 2026 10:10PM
“Well, I decidedly do not understand why hurling bombs at people, according to all the rules of siege warfare, is a more respectable form. Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“...and entered with seeming earnestness into the plans of my father, although they might only serve as the decorations of my tragedy.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“..The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is retrograde!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Ah, don’t disdain life!' Porfiry went on. “You still have a lot of it ahead of you…’
‘A lot of what ahead of me?’
‘Of life! What, are you a prophet? How much do you know? Seek and ye shall find. Maybe it’s just here that God has been waiting for you.”
― Crime and Punishment
‘A lot of what ahead of me?’
‘Of life! What, are you a prophet? How much do you know? Seek and ye shall find. Maybe it’s just here that God has been waiting for you.”
― Crime and Punishment
“Sometimes, he wondered if that was when his parents had started resenting him…they’d named him Kiet. The way Halberrans pronounced it—flatly, with no intonation—meant “rarity” in the Renisian tongue. But, add a questioning lilt, an upward stroke above the e, and his name meant “disease”’.”
― When Shadows Burn
― When Shadows Burn
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