The Burning God
R.F. Kuang
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.”
“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
“You can’t do this for me,” he said. “I won’t let you.” “It’s not for you. It’s not a favor. It’s the cruelest thing I could do.”
“She was a goddess. She was a monster. She‘d nearly destroyed this country. And then she‘d given it one last, gasping chance to live.”
“The point of revenge wasn’t to heal. The point was that the exhilaration, however temporary, drowned out the hurt.”
“Dying was easy. Living was so much harder—that was the most important lesson Altan had ever taught her.”
“You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.”
“I am the force of creation, I am the end and the beginning. The world is a painting and I hold the brush. I am a god.”
“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.”
“It doesn’t go away. It never will. But when it hurts, lean into it. It’s so much harder to stay alive. That doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to live. It means you’re brave.”
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