Top 500 R.F. Kuang Quotes (2024 Update)
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R.F. Kuang Quote: “That none of my beliefs about the world were true. That reality is malleable. That hidden connections exist in every living object. That the whole of the world is merely a thought, a butterfly’s dream.”

201. “That none of my beliefs about the world were true. That reality is malleable. That hidden connections exist in every living object. That the whole of the world is merely a thought, a butterfly’s dream.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “They had a god to kill. A world to reshape. An Empress to overthrow.”

202. “They had a god to kill. A world to reshape. An Empress to overthrow.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Translation involves a spatial dimension – a literal transportation of texts across conquered territory, words delivered likes spices from an alien land. Words mean something quite different when they journey from the palaces of Rome to the tea-rooms of today’s Britain.”

203. “Translation involves a spatial dimension – a literal transportation of texts across conquered territory, words delivered likes spices from an alien land. Words mean something quite different when they journey from the palaces of Rome to the tea-rooms of today’s Britain.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Family names were not things to be dropped and replaced at whim, he thought. They marked lineage; they marked belonging.”

204. “Family names were not things to be dropped and replaced at whim, he thought. They marked lineage; they marked belonging.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”

205. “Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But I can’t quit the one thing that gives meaning to my life. Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me.”

206. “But I can’t quit the one thing that gives meaning to my life. Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much. To stop writing would kill me.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Between us, we have the fire and the water. I’m quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”

207. “Between us, we have the fire and the water. I’m quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics.”

208. “Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Violence shows them how much we’re willing to give up,’ said Griffin. ‘Violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent. Violence shocks the system. And the system cannot survive the shock. You have no idea what you’re capable of, truly. You can’t imagine how the world might shift unless you pull the trigger.”

209. “Violence shows them how much we’re willing to give up,’ said Griffin. ‘Violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent. Violence shocks the system. And the system cannot survive the shock. You have no idea what you’re capable of, truly. You can’t imagine how the world might shift unless you pull the trigger.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him she’d constructed for herself. She had admired him. She had idolized him. She adored an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that was invulnerable.”

210. “She had not always known the shape of him. She had loved the version of him she’d constructed for herself. She had admired him. She had idolized him. She adored an idea of him, an archetype, a version of him that was invulnerable.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it.”

211. “History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If you were the victim, what could you say to make your tormentor recognize you as human? How did you get your enemy to recognize you at all?”

212. “If you were the victim, what could you say to make your tormentor recognize you as human? How did you get your enemy to recognize you at all?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “You must conflate these concepts. The god outside you. The god within. Once you understand that these are one and the same, once you can hold both concepts in your head and know them to be true, you’ll be a shaman.”

213. “You must conflate these concepts. The god outside you. The god within. Once you understand that these are one and the same, once you can hold both concepts in your head and know them to be true, you’ll be a shaman.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Don’t think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.”

214. “Don’t think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It’s hard for me to really feel sorry for Geoff. This is, after all, the same man who once threatened to leak nudes of Athena on Reddit if she didn’t back him up against a Locus reviewer.”

215. “It’s hard for me to really feel sorry for Geoff. This is, after all, the same man who once threatened to leak nudes of Athena on Reddit if she didn’t back him up against a Locus reviewer.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Keep your eyes on your own paper, they say. But that’s hard to do when everyone else’s papers are flapping constantly in your face.”

216. “Keep your eyes on your own paper, they say. But that’s hard to do when everyone else’s papers are flapping constantly in your face.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I think I’d like to go frothing mad,” said Rin. “I’d like to lose my head. I think I’d be happier.”

217. “I think I’d like to go frothing mad,” said Rin. “I’d like to lose my head. I think I’d be happier.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn’t matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

218. “In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn’t matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “There would be no truce or negotiation tonight. Tonight was a borrowed grace, innocent of the future.”

219. “There would be no truce or negotiation tonight. Tonight was a borrowed grace, innocent of the future.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Follow along, feel free to have a look – books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless, so don’t be nervous.”

220. “Follow along, feel free to have a look – books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless, so don’t be nervous.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Life is so short. Why do we build up these walls?”

221. “Life is so short. Why do we build up these walls?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “This isn’t a garden,” she said. “This is a drug farm.” Now she really wanted to meet the Lore Master. Kitay sat down next to her. “You know, the great shamans of legend used to ingest drugs before battle. Gave them magical powers, so the stories say.” He smiled. “You think that’s what the Lore Master teaches?” “Honestly?” Rin picked at the grass. “I think he just comes in here to get high.”

222. “This isn’t a garden,” she said. “This is a drug farm.” Now she really wanted to meet the Lore Master. Kitay sat down next to her. “You know, the great shamans of legend used to ingest drugs before battle. Gave them magical powers, so the stories say.” He smiled. “You think that’s what the Lore Master teaches?” “Honestly?” Rin picked at the grass. “I think he just comes in here to get high.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “What happened to you was common in the era before the Red Emperor, back when Nikara shamans didn’t know what they were doing. If this had continued, you would have gone mad. But I am here to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’m going to keep you sane.” Rin wondered how someone who regularly strolled through campus without clothes on could say that with a straight face.”

223. “What happened to you was common in the era before the Red Emperor, back when Nikara shamans didn’t know what they were doing. If this had continued, you would have gone mad. But I am here to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’m going to keep you sane.” Rin wondered how someone who regularly strolled through campus without clothes on could say that with a straight face.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Pamphlets. They’d thought they could win this with pamphlets. He almost laughed at the absurdity. Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”

224. “Pamphlets. They’d thought they could win this with pamphlets. He almost laughed at the absurdity. Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It all works beautifully, until it doesn’t.”

225. “It all works beautifully, until it doesn’t.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “They’d been lying to themselves for too long, he and his father. Things could not remain buried, hidden, and wilfully ignored forever. Sooner or later, things had to come to a head.”

226. “They’d been lying to themselves for too long, he and his father. Things could not remain buried, hidden, and wilfully ignored forever. Sooner or later, things had to come to a head.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Ugh, so June Song came out with her non-apology, and I bet white people will be jumping over themselves to defend her. I hate this industry.”

227. “Ugh, so June Song came out with her non-apology, and I bet white people will be jumping over themselves to defend her. I hate this industry.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Watching someone warp your image and tell your story however they choose, knowing you have no power to stop it? No voice? That’s how we all felt, watching you. Pretty awful, huh?”

228. “Watching someone warp your image and tell your story however they choose, knowing you have no power to stop it? No voice? That’s how we all felt, watching you. Pretty awful, huh?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Empire needed extraction. Violence shocked the system, because the system could not cannibalize itself and survive.”

229. “Empire needed extraction. Violence shocked the system, because the system could not cannibalize itself and survive.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”

230. “When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If you’re focused only on your enemy’s weapon, you’ll always be on the defensive. Look past the weapon to your target. Focus on what you want to kill.”

231. “If you’re focused only on your enemy’s weapon, you’ll always be on the defensive. Look past the weapon to your target. Focus on what you want to kill.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “All our silver goes to luxury, to the military, to making lace and weapons when there are people dying of simple things these bars could fix. It’s not right that you recruit students from other countries to work your translation centre and that their motherlands receive nothing in return.”

232. “All our silver goes to luxury, to the military, to making lace and weapons when there are people dying of simple things these bars could fix. It’s not right that you recruit students from other countries to work your translation centre and that their motherlands receive nothing in return.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “What was the difference between finite and infinite? There was being and nonbeing and that was it. Time was not real.”

233. “What was the difference between finite and infinite? There was being and nonbeing and that was it. Time was not real.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “One did not spite one’s saviours.”

234. “One did not spite one’s saviours.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “People are attracted to power, darling. They can’t help themselves. Power seduces. Exert it, make a show of it, and they’ll follow you.”

235. “People are attracted to power, darling. They can’t help themselves. Power seduces. Exert it, make a show of it, and they’ll follow you.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But language,” said Professor Lovell, “is not like a commercial good, like tea or silks, to be bought and paid for. Language is an infinite resource.”

236. “But language,” said Professor Lovell, “is not like a commercial good, like tea or silks, to be bought and paid for. Language is an infinite resource.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But isn’t that what ghosts do? Howl, moan, make themselves into spectacles? That’s the whole point of a ghost, is it not? Anything to remind you that they’re still there. Anything to keep you from forgetting.”

237. “But isn’t that what ghosts do? Howl, moan, make themselves into spectacles? That’s the whole point of a ghost, is it not? Anything to remind you that they’re still there. Anything to keep you from forgetting.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “This is what I love about writing – it offers us endless opportunities to reinvent ourselves, and the stories we tell about ourselves. It lets us acknowledge every aspect of our heritage and history.”

238. “This is what I love about writing – it offers us endless opportunities to reinvent ourselves, and the stories we tell about ourselves. It lets us acknowledge every aspect of our heritage and history.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “What you don’t understand,’ said Ramy, ’is how much people like you will excuse if it just means they can get tea and coffee on their breakfast tables. They don’t care, Letty. They just don’t care.”

239. “What you don’t understand,’ said Ramy, ’is how much people like you will excuse if it just means they can get tea and coffee on their breakfast tables. They don’t care, Letty. They just don’t care.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The gods do not want anything. The gods merely exist. We cannot help what we are; we are pure essence, pure element. You humans inflict everything on yourselves, and then blame us afterward. Every calamity has been man-made. We do not force you to do anything. We have only ever helped.”

240. “The gods do not want anything. The gods merely exist. We cannot help what we are; we are pure essence, pure element. You humans inflict everything on yourselves, and then blame us afterward. Every calamity has been man-made. We do not force you to do anything. We have only ever helped.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I believe in gods as a cultural reference. As metaphors. As things we refer to keep us safe because we can’t do anything else, as manifestations of our neuroses. But not as things that I truly trust are real. Not as things that hold actual consequence for the universe.”

241. “I believe in gods as a cultural reference. As metaphors. As things we refer to keep us safe because we can’t do anything else, as manifestations of our neuroses. But not as things that I truly trust are real. Not as things that hold actual consequence for the universe.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I’ve got quite a big family there. Don’t tell anyone, but I’m actually royalty, fourth in line to the throne – what throne? Oh, just a regional one; our political system is very complicated. But I wanted to experience a normal life – get a proper British education, you know – so I’ve left my palace for here.”

242. “I’ve got quite a big family there. Don’t tell anyone, but I’m actually royalty, fourth in line to the throne – what throne? Oh, just a regional one; our political system is very complicated. But I wanted to experience a normal life – get a proper British education, you know – so I’ve left my palace for here.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It was all such frippery, fluff, trivial distractions built over a foundation of ongoing, unimaginable cruelty.”

243. “It was all such frippery, fluff, trivial distractions built over a foundation of ongoing, unimaginable cruelty.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I wonder if that’s the final, obscure part of how publishing works: if the books that become big do so because at some point everyone decided, for no good reason at all, that this would be the title of the moment.”

244. “I wonder if that’s the final, obscure part of how publishing works: if the books that become big do so because at some point everyone decided, for no good reason at all, that this would be the title of the moment.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I don’t want peace, I want revenge.”

245. “I don’t want peace, I want revenge.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Don’t we all want a friend who won’t ever challenge our superiority, because they already know it’s a lost cause? Don’t we all need someone we can treat as a punching bag?”

246. “Don’t we all want a friend who won’t ever challenge our superiority, because they already know it’s a lost cause? Don’t we all need someone we can treat as a punching bag?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm.”

247. “Hate was its own kind of fire and if you had nothing else, it kept you warm.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countries.”

248. “It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countries.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world. I need you to suspend your disbelief. I need you to simply accept that these things are possible.” “I’m supposed to take it as true that you’re a god?” “Don’t be silly. I am not a god,” he said. “I am a mortal who has woken up, and there is power in awareness.”

249. “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world. I need you to suspend your disbelief. I need you to simply accept that these things are possible.” “I’m supposed to take it as true that you’re a god?” “Don’t be silly. I am not a god,” he said. “I am a mortal who has woken up, and there is power in awareness.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “We don’t die so much as we return to the void. We dissolve. We lose our ego. We change from being just one thing to becoming everything. Most of us, at least.”

250. “We don’t die so much as we return to the void. We dissolve. We lose our ego. We change from being just one thing to becoming everything. Most of us, at least.”

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