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Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7)

by Christopher Ruocchio (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 10, 2025 09:44AM

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Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3)

by Christopher Ruocchio (Goodreads Author)

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Jake Bishop said: " Demon in White was incredible.
I think we often think of books on a spectrum, with one side being thought provoking, and theme driven, with the other being page turning adventure.

Demon in White is one of the books that prove those aren't mutually excl ...more "

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Jake’s Quotes

“I Hate Death. I Hate … Death. I Hate Death. I Hate when thinking beings end and are no more. I think it is sane to hate Death. I Love you and I Hate it when you die. I try to understand when you say there are causes worth killing and dying for, but I do not understand. I Hate Death.” [...]
“War is the thesis that there is a special time when causing death is normal, legal, heroic, accepted, right; I Hate this thesis and I cannot call it justice.” [...]
“Billions have just acted on this thesis, killing as if killing were normal now because we named this five hundred and four days ‘war’ and this naming alone suspended ethics and made a blood-carnival time when death was not an evil. No. I do not accept war’s thesis. We do not need to accept war’s thesis. War’s thesis is not of this era [...]
“This is terra ignota. We get to make new laws of war for this new age. We do not have to make our laws of war exempt the soldier from the truth that we should not kill when we do not have to. I say killing is a crime. If it is war and there is such a thing as war crime, then I say killing should be a war crime, every killing, exempting only those we would exempt in peacetime, too. [...]
“This is terra ignota. We get to make new laws of war for this new age. We do not have to make our laws of war exempt the soldier from the truth that we should not kill when we do not have to. I say killing is a crime. If it is war and there is such a thing as war crime, then I say killing should be a war crime, every killing, exempting only those we would exempt in peacetime, too. [...]”
― Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars

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“You speak of destiny, yet what is destiny but accumulated chance made into a story in retrospect?”
― Ken Liu, The Wall of Storms

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“No army, no matter how clean its reputation, walked away from war untainted. And no leader, no matter how noble, could help but sink into the crem when he stepped into the game of conquest.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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