A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

by Becky Chambers

She’d left because it was in her design to be accommodating, to put others first, to make everyone else comfortable, no matter what. But what of her comfort? What about that?

I love learning. I love history. But there’s history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It’s not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes.’