59 Quotes by R.F. Kuang

If there is a divine creator, some ultimate moral authority, then why do bad things happen to good people? And why would this deity create people at all, since people are such imperfect beings?

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.

The Keju is a ruse to keep uneducated peasants right where they’ve always been. You slip past the Keju, they’ll find a way to expel you anyway. The Keju keeps the lower classes sedated. It keeps us dreaming. It’s not a ladder for mobility; it’s a way to keep people like me exactly where they were born.

Call off your men, or I will summon into existence things that should not be in this world

Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn't fit your present understanding of the world.

…we’re all grappling with what to do with our Harry Potter memorabilia now that J.K. Rowling insists on being a TERF, isn’t it?

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

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.

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.