Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

by Lindsay Ellis

Cora gulped down the last bit of pancake, already starting to ache from having very rapidly eaten the whole plate. The whole plate.

i mean, lol XD

knowledge could be stupefyingly, spectacularly dangerous.

“They represent your own government,” he said. “Why are you afraid of your own government?”

One species is only comprehensible to another species as it understands itself. But with all species, there are attributes one possesses that the other does not share. Where attributes are not shared, inevitably both parties will try to shape the other into a form they can understand.’”

We understand each other only insofar as we understand ourselves.’”

“My experience as a captive sets me apart from them. In some regards, I am as alien to them as I am to you.”