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let's see if I still love this with my whole heart on a reread

"I want to tell her that we shall create a huge trading centre here at Tumasik, its waters also protected by Bintan, that we shall be beholden neither to Cina nor to Majapahit, that this balance of one against the other shall be our way of ensuring independence from them both..."

reading this has caused my love for singapore grown tenfold.
(kit chan's home plays in the background)

"I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place."

honestly was not expecting such gorgeous writing wtfffff

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

I still haven't moved on from that first sentence of the book.

I'm in love with everything.

ohmygod what is it about this book that makes me want to keep reading. n.k. jemisin's writing is so riveting.

for a fic based on a funny premise, this is turning out to be quite DEVASTATING.

"... Kuni’s dream of a more just Dara, a Dara where a woman had as much power as a man, where a poor peasant’s daughter from Dasu had as much chance to succeed as a wealthy merchant’s son from Wolf’s Paw, where anyone who had talent would be found and given a place to shine."

you don't know the kind of emotional instability reading this at 3am with tears in my eyes have on me

“The ancient sagas tell us that Man is the word-hungry animal, but I rather like to think of us as the idea-hungry animal."

fully encapsulate the kind of ideas ken liu brings into his stories

"We also have a claim on time, and we deserve a god who understands that every day in the life of the common flower is a day of battle.”