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1 " Then why did you do it?" she asked."To protect you," he said. "To protect everyone around me. I'm sorry I couldn't think of a better way how."She had no response to that. His words terrified her. If Jiang had seen this hell as the best of alternatives, then what had he been afraid of?"I'm sorry, child," Jiang stretched out his hands in a conciliatory gesture. "I am so sorry. "
― R.F. Kuang , The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
2 " Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature. "
― R.F. Kuang , The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
3 " Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind. "
4 " His hand went into the skimmer's hull, an inch from her head. She didn't flinch. She turned her head slowly, trying to pretend her heart wasn't slamming against her chest.'You missed,' she said calmly.Nehza pulled his hand away from the hull. Blood trickled down his knuckles from four crimson fots.She should have been afraid, but when she searched his face, she couldn't find a shred of anger. Just fear.She had no respect for fear.'I don't want to hurt you,' he said.'Of, trust me.' Her lip curled. 'You couldn't. "
5 " Darling, people pay you less attention when you don't leave a trail of bodies in your wake. "
6 " She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him. She idolized him. She adored him an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that invulnerable. "
― R.F. Kuang
7 " She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him she'd constructed for herself. She had admired him. She had idolized him. She adored an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that was invulnerable. "
8 " She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him. She idolized him. She adored him an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that invulnerable.But now she knew the truth, she knew the realness of Altan and his vulnerabilities and most of all his pain... and still she loved him. "
9 " The Keju is a ruse to keep uneducated peasants right where they’ve always been. You slip past the Keju, they’ll find a way to expel you anyway. The Keju keeps the lower classes sedated. It keeps us dreaming. It’s not a ladder for mobility; it’s a way to keep people like me exactly where they were born. "
― R.F. Kuang , The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
10 " Our world is a dream of the gods. Maybe they have other dreams. But all we have is this story unfolding, and in the script of this world, nothing's going to bring Altan back to life. "
11 " Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it. "
12 " She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look. "
13 " But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath. "
14 " Amateurs obsessed over strategy, and professionals obsessed over logistics. "
15 " Our dead don't leave us. They'll hunt you as long as you let them. "
16 " Amateurs obsess over strategy...Professionals obsess over logistics. "
17 " It was a funny thing, how fear made him look so much younger, how it rounded his eyes and erased the cruel grimace of his sneer so that he looked, just for an instant, like the boy she'd first met at Sinegard. "
18 " Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better. "
19 " Call off your men, or I will summon into existence things that should not be in this world "
20 " Who is the true god.”“Chaos,” he says.That’s the closest the Hesperians will ever come to understanding the Pantheon. They’ll never grasp the depths of it; the terrifying swirl of forces that constitute all that is. Their minds can’t handle its incoherence; the fact that the sixty-four gods do not will and do not care. They can’t fathom a world without intention. The only word they might accept is chaos. But Nezha knows divinity. It’s fathomless. It is not something that can be measured or studied; can’t be described through meticulously constructed logic. The forces that dreamed up this world are the opposite of rational. Divinity isn’t knowable. It’s the Dragon in the grotto. It’s the Dragon inside him. It’s the three madmen who united a nation and tore themselves apart. It’s pain, eternity, and terror. It’s endless, all-consuming fire.It’s her. "
― R.F. Kuang , The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War, #2.5)
