Maximilian Birkl
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Listening to them, I realized I really didn’t know what it felt like to just … live. Without worrying about a bomb annihilating my entire civilization one night while I slept. Without fearing that my friends wouldn’t be coming home
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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
“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
― A Memory Called Empire
― A Memory Called Empire
“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“If anything it seemed to be gaining momentum, like a very boring avalanche.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“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
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