Sarah

“In the months since the semester began, Jiang hadn’t shown up once to class. Students occasionally spotted him around campus doing inexcusably rude things.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“The Inevitable Ruin. That’s what their queen used to call this moment. The moment you realized there was no hope, nothing left to do, and all that was left was to die and reflect upon what you’ve already done while you waited. To ruminate on how you’ve helped the colony, and to beg forgiveness of God for not sacrificing enough.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

“He acted like the rules of nature did not apply to him. Perhaps they didn’t.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Are you frightened?” I asked. The first call of a nightingale in the trees at our backs. “No,” he answered. “This is what I was born for.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles