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Revenant Gun

Yoon Ha Lee

Top 10 Best Quotes

“In Inesser’s experience, being distracted by shooting pains in your ass never improved your decision-making ability.”

“The presence of atrocity doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold. You’ll arguably be better at dealing with the horrible things you have to witness, or even to perpetrate, if you allow yourself time to do the small, simple things that make you happy. Instead of looking for ways to destroy yourself.”

“The first rule of any game was to assume you could win, even if you had to hunt through the universe’s cracks for a strategy, even if you had to turn the pieces inside-out, even if you had to tell so many lies to the opponent that they couldn’t figure out which way was up.”

“I’ll keep going,” Brezan said. “I have to. If it means becoming more like you, then so be it.”

“It hadn’t helped that Mikodez had casually mentioned that his assistant Zehun had named their latest calico kitten Jedao, apparently continuing a long tradition of naming their cats after notorious Shuos assassins.)”

“I wish I could stop caring. And the day after that, scrawled in the margin in jagged, shaky letters almost entirely unlike his usual handwriting: I know how to do that.”

“But that didn’t mean those things weren’t worth doing. Someone had to carry on with the small acts that kept civilization moving. And this time it was her turn.”

“It would be a shame to let all that hostile intent go to waste.”

“According to some law of fuckery and bad luck, enemies always arrived at the most inconvenient time, by chance if not by design.”

“their vocabulary for fixing problems is mainly limited to shooting them.”

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Book Keywords:

victory, fate, strategy, luck, game, bad-luck, self-destruction, happiness, atrocity, misfortune, intrigue, timing, hobby, enemy

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