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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: eugenides, loyalty, teleus, the-king-of-attolia, trust

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

tags: war

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“He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: attolia, eugenides, love, marriage, royalty

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