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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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Arkady Martine
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady Martine
“The motion of a swift is an impenetrable language; as incomprehensible to me as the thoughts of a flower when it opens its petals at dawn, without memory or mind. A coherent logic and a dance, but not one I can shape within myself. All my attempts are approximation. One cannot render meaning in language one finds meaningless; nevertheless I know there is a design, a speaking, a world just on the other side of shadow, untouchable but nonetheless real. Three years since I came home from Ebrekt, and I still dream of the swifts, running: in dreams, sometimes I understand them.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

R.F. Kuang
“Then I will die on my feet," she said. "I will die with flames in my hand and fury in my heart. I will die fighting for the legacy of my people, rather than on Shiro's operating table, drugged and wasted. I will not die a coward.”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

Tamsyn Muir
“Palamedes remembers everything: That was his problem.

I always remember him. That’s mine.”
Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

Arkady Martine
“Having whole hours to contemplate her degree of fuckedness was a luxury.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

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