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"Boring so far. Reads like a textbook, and no, this isn't a good thing for me. While I can see the appeal of the story and the foundations and frameworks being set, I can't lose myself in it because it feels like I need to study the material rather than engage with the story." — Jan 25, 2026 09:59AM
"Boring so far. Reads like a textbook, and no, this isn't a good thing for me. While I can see the appeal of the story and the foundations and frameworks being set, I can't lose myself in it because it feels like I need to study the material rather than engage with the story." — Jan 25, 2026 09:59AM
“On my first day of training, she said to me, “Death is natural. Children dying is natural. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world.”
Treating disease—whether through herbs or magic or drugs—is unnatural. No other animals do it, at least not with anything approaching our sophistication. Hospitals are unnatural, as are novels and saxophones.
None of us actually wants to live in a natural world. And yet we tell ourselves that some—and only some—lives end naturally (which really means “acceptably” or “well”). We construct ideas about what constitutes a
good time and manner of death.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Treating disease—whether through herbs or magic or drugs—is unnatural. No other animals do it, at least not with anything approaching our sophistication. Hospitals are unnatural, as are novels and saxophones.
None of us actually wants to live in a natural world. And yet we tell ourselves that some—and only some—lives end naturally (which really means “acceptably” or “well”). We construct ideas about what constitutes a
good time and manner of death.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“She did not want to be a legend, but she wanted to stay alive. She
wanted more than anything to live, consequences be damned, and if
calling the Phoenix would do that for her, then so be it. Jiang’s warning
meant nothing to her now, not while her countrymen and classmates
were hacked to pieces beside her, not while she didn’t know if each
second was going to be her last. If she was going to die, she would not
die like this—small, weak, and helpless.”
― The Poppy War
wanted more than anything to live, consequences be damned, and if
calling the Phoenix would do that for her, then so be it. Jiang’s warning
meant nothing to her now, not while her countrymen and classmates
were hacked to pieces beside her, not while she didn’t know if each
second was going to be her last. If she was going to die, she would not
die like this—small, weak, and helpless.”
― The Poppy War
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