The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

by Becky Chambers

Acting all sanctimonious while spouting bad info was a terrible way to win a debate, but a great way to piss people off.

“We cannot blame ourselves for the wars our parents start. Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away.”

People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. Your father had probably gotten his way for so long that he thought he was untouchable, and that is a dangerous way for a person to feel.

You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways.”

Brothers you can’t get rid of. They get who you are, and what you like, and they don’t care who you sleep with or what mistakes you make, because brothers aren’t mixed up in that part of your life. They see you at your worst, and they don’t care.

Every piece, down to the last atom, had been made out here, flung through the open in a moment of violence, until they had swirled around and around, churning and coalescing, becoming heavy, weighing each other down.