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“She liked listening to Nezha talk. He was so hopeful, so optimistic, and so stupid.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved so much by the time his belly exploded that even this undignified end was soon forgotten by all but the most diligent annalists.

...

You and I, continued the king, have achieved nothing yet. Nothing...You may die here in Normandy, like our ancestor. But unlike our ancestor, should your dead belly burst and release poisonous miasmas that sicken all who smell them, then that, my son, will be the story of you.”
― Dan Jones, Essex Dogs

“Three floors.'

'What?' Glave snapped.

'No legs. It had no legs, but it crawled up three floors trying to kill us.'

Glave thought about that, then swept the beam of his meltagun across the rockcrete stairs, eating away at the grey stone and metal supports beneath.

'Well the next one will have to jump for us.”
― Robert Rath, The Fall of Cadia

“He begged before he died, you know. Your mighty Tolyev. You all beg, Nikita. That's what they don't tell you. When you see the end coming, past all the bluff and bluster, the thees and thous, in that final moment, you all beg like fucking children. And you die like fucking dogs.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned