“Fuck the Heavenly Order of Things” Print

"The Nikara believed in strictly defined social roles, a rigid hierarchy that all were locked into at birth. Everything had its own place under heaven. Princelings became Warlords, cadets became soldiers, and orphan shopgirls from Tikany should be content with remaining orphan shopgirls from Tikany. The Keju was a purportedly meritocratic institution, but only the wealthy class ever had the money to afford the tutors their children needed to actually pass. Well, fuck the heavenly order of things. If getting married to a gross old man was her preordained role on this earth, then Rin was determined to rewrite it. 'It means I’m very good at memorizing long passages of gibberish,' she said. Tutor Feyrik was silent for a moment. 'You don’t have an eidetic memory,' he said finally. “I taught you to read. I would have known.” “I don’t,” she acknowledged. 'But I’m stubborn, I study hard, and I really don’t want to be married.'"

-R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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Made in Seattle, WA, 2026

From The Poppy War Trilogy, by R.F. Kuang, © 2018. Artwork by Carrington Moore. Created with permission of Liza Dawson Associates acting as agent for the author.