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“No, there doesn’t. Every time someone starts talking about final anythings in politics, that means the atrocities are warming up. Humanity has done amazing things by just muddling through, arguing and complaining and fighting and negotiating. It’s messy and undignified, but it’s when we’re at our best, because everyone gets to have a voice in it. Even if everyone else is trying to shout it down. Whenever there’s just one voice that matters, something terrible comes out of it.”
Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins and what parts of it don’t count.”
“Oh. Fuck that,” Holden said.
His hands imagined what it would feel like to snap her neck. The tension first, then the grinding feeling of cartilage ripping as it gave way. He saw the look of betrayal in her eyes as the life went out of them. It was as clear as if he’d actually done it.
“When did you turn into such a fucking pussy, Babs?” he said.
It’d be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked.”
