Mad

“That's your key to the gods. Hold that in your mind and never forget the way you're feeling right now. That's what gives you power. And that's what is going to keep you human.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

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

“Ghost stories are a way of talking about things we’re not otherwise allowed to discuss: a forbidden history we thought bricked up safely in the walls.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

“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