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“Dragons are desirable and dangerous. The old armies used to drink their blood before a battle to make them invincible. They believed eating raw dragon heart could make a man immortal. Dragon scale, ground to a powder, could make a dead man rise and walk when sprinkled on his body, and if drunk with wine it could turn back any poison.”
― Priya Sharma, Ormeshadow

“There wasn’t an iota of Information Ministry training that covered tripartite negotiations from the bridge of a Fleet flagship, where one of the negotiating parties wasn’t even human and one of the others wasn’t Teixcalaanli, and none of the parties were Information agents except the negotiator. She should write a procedure manual. If she lived long enough to be that bored.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“The name the man had chosen, it turned out, was Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle, a revelation that produced in both Mahit and Three Seagrass a kind of stunned silence.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“You don’t realize how loud a heart is until you’ve run the whole length of a train platform and you’re left standing in the cloud of silence that the train spews out as it abandons you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends