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[roxelll213]

@literatureladies mission 06: gift exchange, for @parrishes

“I have become something wonderful. I have become something terrible.”

[altans]

✧ @booksociety​​’s Back to School Event: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang.

was  she  now  a  g o d e s s   or  a   m o n s t e r  ?                                                                                                                                 perhaps neither. perhaps both.

[vorbarrsultana]

everything i read in 2021 -> the dragon republic by r. f. kuang

“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.”

[catlaila]

@projectliterature event 04: free — the poppy war

She was no victim of destiny. She was the last Speerly, commander of the Cike, and a shaman who called the gods to do her bidding. And she would call the gods to do such terrible things.

[andruwminyrd]

read in 2019. the dragon republic (the poppy war #2) by r.f. kuang

fire and water looked so lovely together. it was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.

[catlaila]

     He was so beautiful then, standing right in the space of the road where a beam of moonlight fell across his face, illuminating one side and casting long shadows on the other.     He looked like glazed porcelain, preserved glass. He was a sculptor’s approximation of a person, not human himself. He can’t be real, she thought. A boy made of flesh and bone could not be so painfully lovely, so free of any blemish or flaw. (x)

[catlaila]

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.

⁠—  THE POPPY WAR, R.F. KUANG