Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire, #2)

by Yoon Ha Lee

“Shuos-zho,” Jedao said patiently, “I haven’t had a dick in four hundred years. I got over it fast, promise.”

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

history forgives the winner a lot of things.”

Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.

what good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines in the human heart?”