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Book cover for Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)
“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.”
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R.F. Kuang
“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.”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
tags: war

Arkady Martine
“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.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
tags: focus, will

“war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

Tamsyn Muir
“If anything it seemed to be gaining momentum, like a very boring avalanche.”
Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

Arkady Martine
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

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