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    R.F. Kuang
    “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.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: dream, gods, life-and-death, script, story, world
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    R.F. Kuang
    “She’d seen the resentment on the faces of her people. The glare in their eyes when they dared to look up. They were not a people grasping for power. Their rebellion would not fracture over stupid personal ambitions. They were a people who refused to be killed, and that made them dangerous. You”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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    R.F. Kuang
    “We’ll get rid of them.” “Then we’ll create another war,” said Kitay. “That’s what militaries do.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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    R.F. Kuang
    “The anger was a shield. The anger helped her to keep from remembering what she'd done. Because as long as she was angry, then it was okay — she'd acted within reason. She was afraid that if she stopped being angry, she might crack apart.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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    R.F. Kuang
    “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.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: anger, defiance, fear, respect, retaliation, soldiers, stubborn, violence, war, warriors
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    R.F. Kuang
    “If they couldn't capture the Autumn Palace, at least they had a good chance of blowing it up.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: conquer, destroy, war
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  • #7
    R.F. Kuang
    “They believe in a singular and all-powerful deity, which means they cannot accept the truth of other gods. And when nations start to believe that other beliefs lead to damnation, violence becomes inevitable.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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    R.F. Kuang
    “I know the vision you dreamed of for this nation and I know I may have destroyed it. But my first obligation is not to the unborn people of this country's future, but the people who are suffering now, who pass their days in fear because of the war that you have brought to their doorstep.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: dream, nation, obligation, people, suffering, vision, war
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  • #9
    R.F. Kuang
    “And you think you're on the brink of madness, you think that this moment is going to be when you finally snap, but it's not.
    "How do you know that?"
    "Because it gets easier every time. Eventually you learn to exist on the precipice of insanity.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: insanity, obstacles, overcoming
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  • #10
    R.F. Kuang
    “But eventually, you'll have to ask yourself precisely what you're fighting for. And you'll have to find a reason to live past vengeance.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: fight, fighting, live, purpose, vengeance
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  • #11
    R.F. Kuang
    “Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: cosmos, life-and-death, material-world, reincarnation
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  • #12
    R.F. Kuang
    “I have tamed a land created to wither humans away until they are polished bone. Do not think to defy me.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: fantasy, power, wonder
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  • #13
    R.F. Kuang
    “He had the mathematics of fighting down to a science.”
    ― R. F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: r-f-kuang, the-poppy-war
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  • #14
    R.F. Kuang
    “Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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  • #15
    R.F. Kuang
    “You will die thinking I have abandoned you all. But I do not hesitate to say that I value the lives of my people far more than I have ever valued you.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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    R.F. Kuang
    “This was not a world of men. It was a world of gods, a time of great powers. It was the era of divinity walking in man, of wind and water and fire. And in warfare, she who held the power asymmetry was the inevitable victor.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: divinity, fire, gods, great-powers, victor, warfare, water, wind, world
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  • #17
    R.F. Kuang
    “If nothing lasted and the world did not exist, all that meant was that reality was not fixed. The illusion she lived in was fluid and mutable, and could be easily altered by someone willing to rewrite the script of reality.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: alternative-reality, existence, illusion, reality, world
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  • #18
    R.F. Kuang
    “People will seek to use you or destroy you. If you want to live, you must pick a side. So do not shirk from war, child. Do not flinch from suffering. When you hear screaming, run toward it.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
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  • #19
    R.F. Kuang
    “She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: defenseless, looking, war, warrior, weaponry
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  • #20
    R.F. Kuang
    “Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: fight, fire, power, togetherness, water, wind
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    R.F. Kuang
    “Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: destroy, fire, nature, pity, togetherness, water
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