The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)

by Ada Palmer

There’s honor in urging the right course, even when the wrong is set. Many of my old friends are still called wise for their efforts to make peace with Troy. Fail well, as they did, and be ready to fight well once you have failed.”

In darker ages Justice stood alone before courthouses, but in Carlyle’s vision her sister Temperance stands to one side holding back her sword, while from the other side Reason lifts away her blindfold, so Justice can finally see the contents of her scales.

News flies. Mobs form. Fools rush in.

Surely you have discovered that emotions let you sometimes tell yourself the possible is real, even without proof.

each language acquired forever changes how a brain thinks.

I know what they wanted. It’s impossible, but the impossible doesn’t tend to stay impossible when humans are involved. Times change because we change them, and therein there is hope,

Neverland rushed to Atlantis to save Utopia.