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You wound me
I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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When i was mortal, I thought myself a god.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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Before it all burns, I wanted to write to you. I wanted to tell you, for what it’s worth, that I don’t expect you to forgive me. Blame me, or blame the heavens for placing us on different sides of this war. May we meet in another life.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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We’re all so transient. We live and we die; we forget and we’re forgotten. The earth claims our bodies and strangers claim our names.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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One ship sinks. Another catches fire. One lordess falls. Another rises.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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War isn’t easy, Cloud. Our means cannot be as honorable as our cause.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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People are more predictable than they care to admit.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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But I've come a long way from farting over the edge of the sky.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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Older doesn’t always mean brighter, as evidenced by Ren’s swornsisters.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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We’re strategists. We don’t need to explain things to each other.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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We’re all so transient. We live and we die; we forget and we’re forgotten. The earth claims our bodies and strangers claim our names. Only empresses are remembered - and the ones who kill them. The ones who break empires, or restore them to their rightful rulers.
Ren is my path to being remembered.
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))
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Now, how to knife him without ruining my robes …
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Joan He (Strike the Zither (Kingdom of Three, #1))