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“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I have met spirits unable to find their bodies again,” said Jiang. He looked very old then. “I have
met men who are only halfway to the spirit realm, caught between our world and the next. What does
that mean? It means don’t. Fuck. Around.” He tapped her forehead with each word. “If you don’t want
that brilliant little mind of yours to shatter, you’ll do as I say.”
― R.F. Kuang

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Waking Gods

“Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a cost.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light