The Dragon Republic

“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.”

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“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.”

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“She had a weapon now. She wasn't defenseless against him. She'd never been defenseless. She had just never thought to look.”

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“Nothing lasts,'" said Nezha, at the same time that Kitay said, "'The world doesn't exist.”

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“You poor thing," she said. "What are you talking about?" he asked. She just hugged him tighter. She didn't want this moment to end. She didn't want to have to go. "I just don't want the world to break you.”

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“None of that mattered anymore. They weren't stupid little girls anymore. They weren't students anymore. War had transformed them both into wholly unimaginable creatures, and their relationship had transformed with them.”

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“Never trust someone who holds all the cards.”

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“He had the mathematics of fighting down to a science.”

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“Only the empire uses this word, because you assume who lives on the steppe is the same. Naimads are not Ketreyids. Call us by our names.”

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“Czasami człowiek całe życie traci, uganiając się za ułudą, która tylko udaje prawdę, a potem nagle sobie uświadamia, że jest pieprzonym durniem i jeśli posunie się w swojej pogoni chodź krok dalej, utonie.”

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“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.”

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