Top 500 R.F. Kuang Quotes (2024 Update)
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R.F. Kuang Quote: “He loves her laugh; that sharp, sudden sound; the cynical laugh that always comes too quick, like it’s ripped out of her. He loves her quick, confident grin. He loves her resilience, her bravery, even her impulsiveness. She’s everything he’s not: unbound, reckless, free. He’s never known anyone like her. She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.”

301. “He loves her laugh; that sharp, sudden sound; the cynical laugh that always comes too quick, like it’s ripped out of her. He loves her quick, confident grin. He loves her resilience, her bravery, even her impulsiveness. She’s everything he’s not: unbound, reckless, free. He’s never known anyone like her. She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If your opponent is of choleric temper, you should seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak so that he grows arrogant. The good tactician plays with his enemy like a cat plays with a mouse. Feign weakness and immobility, and then pounce on him.”

302. “If your opponent is of choleric temper, you should seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak so that he grows arrogant. The good tactician plays with his enemy like a cat plays with a mouse. Feign weakness and immobility, and then pounce on him.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The matches aren’t about winning, they’re about demonstrating new techniques. What are you going to do, light up in front of the entire student body?”

303. “The matches aren’t about winning, they’re about demonstrating new techniques. What are you going to do, light up in front of the entire student body?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Free trade. This was always the British line of argument – free trade, free competition, an equal playing field for all. Only it never ended up that way, did it? What ‘free trade’ really meant was British imperial dominance, for what was free about a trade that relied on a massive build-up of naval power to secure maritime access? When mere trading companies could wage war, assess taxes, and administer civil and criminal justice?”

304. “Free trade. This was always the British line of argument – free trade, free competition, an equal playing field for all. Only it never ended up that way, did it? What ‘free trade’ really meant was British imperial dominance, for what was free about a trade that relied on a massive build-up of naval power to secure maritime access? When mere trading companies could wage war, assess taxes, and administer civil and criminal justice?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Never, Robin thought, would he understand these men, who talked of the world and its movements like a grand chess game, where countries and peoples were pieces to be moved and manipulated at will.”

305. “Never, Robin thought, would he understand these men, who talked of the world and its movements like a grand chess game, where countries and peoples were pieces to be moved and manipulated at will.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Two hours in the cab brought them to a village called Hampstead several miles north of London proper, where Professor Lovell owned a four-storey house made of pale red brick and white stucco, surrounded by a generous swath of neat green shrubbery.”

306. “Two hours in the cab brought them to a village called Hampstead several miles north of London proper, where Professor Lovell owned a four-storey house made of pale red brick and white stucco, surrounded by a generous swath of neat green shrubbery.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “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.”

307. “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.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world.”

308. “Supernatural is a word for anything that doesn’t fit your present understanding of the world.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “How slender, how fragile, the foundations of an empire. Take away the centre, and what’s left? A gasping periphery, baseless, powerless, cut down at the roots.”

309. “How slender, how fragile, the foundations of an empire. Take away the centre, and what’s left? A gasping periphery, baseless, powerless, cut down at the roots.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The gods were simply those beings that inhabited that space, forces of creation and destruction, love and hatred, nurturing and neglect, light and dark, cold and warm... they opposed one another and complemented one another; they were fundamental truths.”

310. “The gods were simply those beings that inhabited that space, forces of creation and destruction, love and hatred, nurturing and neglect, light and dark, cold and warm... they opposed one another and complemented one another; they were fundamental truths.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If you sanction it, you’ll horrify them. If you denounce it, they’ll resent you. But if you keep quiet, you get plausible deniability.”

311. “If you sanction it, you’ll horrify them. If you denounce it, they’ll resent you. But if you keep quiet, you get plausible deniability.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “We hold the secrets, and we can set whatever terms we like. That’s the beauty of being cleverer than everyone else.”

312. “We hold the secrets, and we can set whatever terms we like. That’s the beauty of being cleverer than everyone else.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved.”

313. “London was voracious, was growing fat on its spoils and still, somehow, starved.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Normally he would have delighted in finding out. But he was busy sulking, still both baffled and resentful at how he’d lost his friends in the process of trying to save them.”

314. “Normally he would have delighted in finding out. But he was busy sulking, still both baffled and resentful at how he’d lost his friends in the process of trying to save them.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “That’s the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”

315. “That’s the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “We’ll get rid of them.” “Then we’ll create another war,” said Kitay. “That’s what militaries do.”

316. “We’ll get rid of them.” “Then we’ll create another war,” said Kitay. “That’s what militaries do.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The price of power is pain.”

317. “The price of power is pain.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Jiang moved through the world like he didn’t belong there. He acted as if he came from a country of near-humans, people who acted almost exactly like Nikara but not quite, and his behavior was that of a confused visitor who had stopped bothering with trying to imitate those around him.”

318. “Jiang moved through the world like he didn’t belong there. He acted as if he came from a country of near-humans, people who acted almost exactly like Nikara but not quite, and his behavior was that of a confused visitor who had stopped bothering with trying to imitate those around him.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Ah. The law.” Jiang sniffed at an unidentified leaf and then tossed it away. “So inconvenient. So irrelevant.”

319. “Ah. The law.” Jiang sniffed at an unidentified leaf and then tossed it away. “So inconvenient. So irrelevant.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But we are the weaker party. We have no choice but to play their game. That’s how power works.”

320. “But we are the weaker party. We have no choice but to play their game. That’s how power works.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The fire doesn’t give, the fire takes, and takes, and takes.”

321. “The fire doesn’t give, the fire takes, and takes, and takes.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “This was only grotesque if she saw her opponents as humans. But she didn’t see humans, because Sinegard and Altan had taught her to compartmentalize and detach. Learn to look and see not a man but a body. The soul is not there. The body is simply a composite of different targets, and all of them burn so bright.”

322. “This was only grotesque if she saw her opponents as humans. But she didn’t see humans, because Sinegard and Altan had taught her to compartmentalize and detach. Learn to look and see not a man but a body. The soul is not there. The body is simply a composite of different targets, and all of them burn so bright.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She felt like a little rodent burrowing down in its hole, trying to pretend that if it lay low enough, the the world outside wouldn’t bother it.”

323. “She felt like a little rodent burrowing down in its hole, trying to pretend that if it lay low enough, the the world outside wouldn’t bother it.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.”

324. “I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “He learned when to flatter and when to engage in self-deprecation. He could have written a thesis on white pride, on white curiosity. He knew how to make himself an object of fascination while neutralizing himself as a threat.”

325. “He learned when to flatter and when to engage in self-deprecation. He could have written a thesis on white pride, on white curiosity. He knew how to make himself an object of fascination while neutralizing himself as a threat.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I’m a sceptic. I think decolonization must be a violent process.”

326. “I’m a sceptic. I think decolonization must be a violent process.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “We could escape to the New World,’ Ramy proposed. ‘Go to Canada.’ ‘You don’t even speak French,’ Letty said. ‘It’s French, Letty.’ Ramy rolled his eyes. ‘Latin’s flimsiest daughter. How hard could it be?”

327. “We could escape to the New World,’ Ramy proposed. ‘Go to Canada.’ ‘You don’t even speak French,’ Letty said. ‘It’s French, Letty.’ Ramy rolled his eyes. ‘Latin’s flimsiest daughter. How hard could it be?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It was like an exercise in hope’, she said after a pause. ‘Loving her, I mean. Sometimes I’d think she’d come around. Sometimes I’d look her in the eyes and think that I was looking at a true friend. Then she’d say something, make some off-the-cuff comment, and the whole cycle would begin all over again. It was like pouring sand into a sieve. Nothing stuck.”

328. “It was like an exercise in hope’, she said after a pause. ‘Loving her, I mean. Sometimes I’d think she’d come around. Sometimes I’d look her in the eyes and think that I was looking at a true friend. Then she’d say something, make some off-the-cuff comment, and the whole cycle would begin all over again. It was like pouring sand into a sieve. Nothing stuck.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “And it strikes me as very convenient that shortly after her death, you come out with a book about the very same subject.”

329. “And it strikes me as very convenient that shortly after her death, you come out with a book about the very same subject.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The thing about violence, see, is that the Empire has a lot more to lose than we do. Violence disrupts the extractive economy. You wreak havoc on one supply line, and there’s a dip in prices across the Atlantic. Their entire system of trade is high-strung and vulnerable to shocks because they’ve made it thus, because the rapacious greed of capitalism is punishing. It’s why slave revolts succeed. They can’t fire on their own source of labour – it’d be like killing their own golden geese.”

330. “The thing about violence, see, is that the Empire has a lot more to lose than we do. Violence disrupts the extractive economy. You wreak havoc on one supply line, and there’s a dip in prices across the Atlantic. Their entire system of trade is high-strung and vulnerable to shocks because they’ve made it thus, because the rapacious greed of capitalism is punishing. It’s why slave revolts succeed. They can’t fire on their own source of labour – it’d be like killing their own golden geese.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “I will take my fugue state of delirious panic and compost it into a fertile bed of creativity – for aren’t all the best novels borne from some madness, which is borne from truth?”

331. “I will take my fugue state of delirious panic and compost it into a fertile bed of creativity – for aren’t all the best novels borne from some madness, which is borne from truth?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Did you know they strapped him down and made him watch as they took the others apart to find out what made them tick? What are Speerlies made of? The Federation was determined to find out. Did you know they kept them alive as long as they could, even when they had peeled their flesh away from their rib cages, so they could see how their muscles moved while they were splayed out like rabbits.”

332. “Did you know they strapped him down and made him watch as they took the others apart to find out what made them tick? What are Speerlies made of? The Federation was determined to find out. Did you know they kept them alive as long as they could, even when they had peeled their flesh away from their rib cages, so they could see how their muscles moved while they were splayed out like rabbits.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She passed her time sleeping. She wanted to sleep all the time now, especially after meals, and when she did it was a heavy and dreamless sleep. She wondered if her food and drink were drugged. Somehow, she was almost grateful for this. It was worse to be alone with her thoughts.”

333. “She passed her time sleeping. She wanted to sleep all the time now, especially after meals, and when she did it was a heavy and dreamless sleep. She wondered if her food and drink were drugged. Somehow, she was almost grateful for this. It was worse to be alone with her thoughts.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Because you’re about to be the ones in power,” she says. “And because you never decentralize power once you’ve got it. I wouldn’t.” “Well, we all know you wouldn’t.” She gives him a look. “That’s not my cynicism, Nezha. That’s human nature.”

334. “Because you’re about to be the ones in power,” she says. “And because you never decentralize power once you’ve got it. I wouldn’t.” “Well, we all know you wouldn’t.” She gives him a look. “That’s not my cynicism, Nezha. That’s human nature.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Now she had nothing to do – her future was out of her hands, and knowing that made her feel far worse.”

335. “Now she had nothing to do – her future was out of her hands, and knowing that made her feel far worse.”

$R.F. Kuang Quote: “She’d seen the resentment on the faces of her people. The glare in their eyes when they dared to look up. They were not a people grasping for power. Their rebellion would not fracture over stupid personal ambitions. They were a people who refused to be killed, and that made them dangerous. You.”$

336. “She’d seen the resentment on the faces of her people. The glare in their eyes when they dared to look up. They were not a people grasping for power. Their rebellion would not fracture over stupid personal ambitions. They were a people who refused to be killed, and that made them dangerous. You.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She suspected that he, too, wanted to suspend reality and break the rules, to ignore the fact that they were about to part forever and just share these last jugs of wine.”

337. “She suspected that he, too, wanted to suspend reality and break the rules, to ignore the fact that they were about to part forever and just share these last jugs of wine.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath.”

338. “But as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy. The hard part was the aftermath.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She would have torn apart kingdoms for this woman. She would have followed her to the gates of hell and back. This was her ruler. This was whom she was meant to serve.”

339. “She would have torn apart kingdoms for this woman. She would have followed her to the gates of hell and back. This was her ruler. This was whom she was meant to serve.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “She dressed him in finely embroidered silks and adorned him with so many lucky amulets of gold and jade that Mingzha clinked everywhere he walked, weighed down with the burden of good fortune. The palace servants liked to joke that they could always hear Mingzha before they saw him.”

340. “She dressed him in finely embroidered silks and adorned him with so many lucky amulets of gold and jade that Mingzha clinked everywhere he walked, weighed down with the burden of good fortune. The palace servants liked to joke that they could always hear Mingzha before they saw him.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “If it’s focus that you want, I can give you focus. I can concentrate on anything. But to empty my mind? To be devoid of all thought? All sense of self? What good does that serve?” “It serves to sever you from the material world,” Jiang answered. “How do you expect to reach the spirit realm when you’re obsessing over the things in front of you?”

341. “If it’s focus that you want, I can give you focus. I can concentrate on anything. But to empty my mind? To be devoid of all thought? All sense of self? What good does that serve?” “It serves to sever you from the material world,” Jiang answered. “How do you expect to reach the spirit realm when you’re obsessing over the things in front of you?”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But maybe he hadn’t hated the gods. Maybe he’d just hated that he couldn’t access their power for himself.”

342. “But maybe he hadn’t hated the gods. Maybe he’d just hated that he couldn’t access their power for himself.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Cities needed water to survive, just like bodies needed blood. So if they wanted to seize the Empire, they needed only to sail through its arteries.”

343. “Cities needed water to survive, just like bodies needed blood. So if they wanted to seize the Empire, they needed only to sail through its arteries.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Only he could determine the truth, because only he could communicate it to all parties.”

344. “Only he could determine the truth, because only he could communicate it to all parties.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Violence shows how much we’re willing to give up.”

345. “Violence shows how much we’re willing to give up.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “It was a good deal smaller than he’d remembered, or perhaps he’d just grown taller. The.”

346. “It was a good deal smaller than he’d remembered, or perhaps he’d just grown taller. The.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “Your languages determine how interesting you are.”

347. “Your languages determine how interesting you are.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “But the best revenge is to thrive.”

348. “But the best revenge is to thrive.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The Federation had fun. They made is a sport. They threw babies in the air to see if they could cleave them in half before they hit the ground. they had contests to see how many civilians they could round up and decapitate in an hour. they raced to see who could stack bodies the fastest.”

349. “The Federation had fun. They made is a sport. They threw babies in the air to see if they could cleave them in half before they hit the ground. they had contests to see how many civilians they could round up and decapitate in an hour. they raced to see who could stack bodies the fastest.”

R.F. Kuang Quote: “The silver industrial revolution had decimated both the textile and agricultural industries. The papers ran piece after piece exposing the horrific working conditions inside silver-powered factories.”

350. “The silver industrial revolution had decimated both the textile and agricultural industries. The papers ran piece after piece exposing the horrific working conditions inside silver-powered factories.”

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