Maximilian Birkl
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Memorial
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And PEDAEUS the unwanted one The mistake of his father’s mistress Felt the hot shock in his neck of Meges’ spear Unswallowable sore throat of metal in his mouth Right through his teeth He died biting down on the spearhead
“They were monsters!" Rin shrieked. "They were not human!"
"Have you ever considered" he said slowly "that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
― The Poppy War
"Have you ever considered" he said slowly "that that was exactly what they thought of us?”
― The Poppy War
“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
― 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
“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
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