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“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.”

People War Dream Suffering Vision Obligation Nation

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“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.”

War Fear Violence Respect Anger Stubborn Defiance Soldiers Warriors Retaliation

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”

War

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”

War

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.”

War Power Risk Great Mediocre

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

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

War Warrior Defenseless Looking Weaponry

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“She'd been so stupid to once think that if she ended the Federation then she'd ended the hurting. War didn't end, not so cleanly - it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds.”

War

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“How could she compare the lives lost? One genocide against another—how did they balance on the scale of justice? And who was she, to imagine that she could make that comparison?”

War Justice Genocide

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“Eventually you learn to exist on the precipice of insanity”

War Fantasy Magic The Dragon Republic

Author:R.F. Kuang

“They want to erase us. It's their divine mandate. They want to make us better, to improve us, by turning us into a mirror of themselves”

War Psychology Racism

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“Children can be murderers... Little boys can be monsters”

War Warfare Child Soldiers

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn't matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

War Racism Brutality Child Soldiers

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

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