Best The Poppy War Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Why are you helping me?" Sanshengmu asked. "You are a human. You live only to prey upon each other. You have no compassion. All you do is justify your own greed." "Not all humans," said the hunter. "Not me.” ― R.F Kuang, The Poppy War”

Humanity The Poppy War

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“Why are you helping me?" Sanshengmu asked. "You are a human. You live only to prey upon each other. You have no compassion. All you do is justify your own greed." "Not all humans," said the hunter. "Not me.”

Humanity The Poppy War

Author:R.F Kuang

“And if your opponent was not human, if your opponent was a cockroach, what did it matter how many of them you killed? What was the difference between crushing an ant and setting an anthill on fire? Why shouldn’t you pull wings off insects for your own enjoyment? The bug might feel pain, but what did that matter to you?”

War Warfare The Poppy War

Author:R.F Kaung

“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.”

Nostalgia Love Hate The Poppy War The Burning God Rebecca Kuang

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

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

The Poppy War Chapter 11 The Dragon Republic Kitay Nezha Chen Kitay Yin Nezha

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“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.”

Friendship Pity Tragic The Poppy War R F Kuang The Dragon Republic

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“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.”

The Poppy War Rin The Dragon Republic Venka Rinvenka

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“Never trust someone who holds all the cards.”

Fantasy Fiction The Poppy War R F Kuang The Dragon Republic

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth.”

History The Poppy War The Burning God Rebecca Kuang

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“They’ve all gone completely mad.” “Throes of victory,” Rin said. “Growing pains.” “They’re skinning people alive,” Venka said. “Because they traded little girls for food rations.” “Oh. Fair enough.” Venka flicked an invisible speck of dust from her wrist. “I hope they castrated them, too.”

Morality The Poppy War The Burning God Rebecca Kuang

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“They would take back the south with sheer numbers. The Mugenese and the Republic were strong, but the south was many. And if southerners were dirt like all the legends said, then they would crush their enemies with the overwhelming force of the earth until they could only dream of breathing. They would bury them with their bodies. They would drown them in their blood.”

The Poppy War The Burning God Rebecca Kuang

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“Words belonging to a legacy that now, she knew, she had no choice but to face. “Because we’ll be Cike. And the first rule of the Cike is that we cull.”

The Poppy War Rin Kitay Venka

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“They can't say her name in his presence. He's never made this a rule. But for some reason, none of them dare.”

The Poppy War Rin Nezha Rinezha The Drowning Faith

Book:The Drowning Faith

Source: The Drowning Faith

“You don’t know who you’re dealing with.” She leaned down close until her lips brushed his skin, until her breath scorched the side of his face. “I’m not Sinegardian elite. I’m that savage mud-skinned Speerly bitch that wiped a country off the map. And sometimes when I get a little too angry, I snap.”

Fantasy The Poppy War R F Kuang The Burning God

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”

Fantasy Young Adult Historical Fantasy The Poppy War R F Kuang

Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

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

The Poppy War R F Kuang

Book:The Dragon Republic

Source: The Dragon Republic

“Her best advantage was her unpredictability.”

Fiction Novel The Poppy War R F Kuang

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War