"The Poppy War" Quotes
A young woman with shamanic powers becomes embroiled in a brutal war and discovers the depths of her own darkness.
fantasy | 644 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.
I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible.
People will seek to use you or destroy you. If you want to live, you must pick a side. So do not shirk from war, child. Do not flinch from suffering.
I have become something terrible, something monstrous. But that’s what war does to us. It makes us into monsters.
The gods were not responsible. The gods had never been responsible. They had never been anything but a figment of people’s imagination, a lie to cover the harsh truth that the world was a brutal place and no one was coming to save you.
War was a game to the people who had never fought it. They were not the ones who starved through the winter, watching their friends die of disease and frostbite. They were not the ones who saw their cities burn and their people slaughtered.
There is no point in wishing for a different past. The future is all we have.
The only power strong enough to shatter you is the power you give someone else to lead you.
When the gods find something to pit against you, they give it teeth and claws and make sure it goes for your throat.
They would rather see us burn than see us free.
