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Maximilian Birkl
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“My father always said fires were only dangerous if they got bored,” Raithe pressed on. “Left alone, they get frustrated and resort to evil. Best way to keep a fire happy is by letting it lick food and hear stories.”
“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
“Three Seagrass had taken her hands away from her face, and the expression which was growing there was one that Mahit had seen before: it was Three Seagrass focusing inward, preparing to bend the universe around her will, because all other options were untenable.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
“war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
“If anything it seemed to be gaining momentum, like a very boring avalanche.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
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