Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

by Lindsay Ellis

Truth is a human right.

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

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

“No intelligent species has evolved past fear. Least of all my own. Without fear, there would also be no survival.

“And sharing that intelligence. You do know where you are, right? This is the agency … for central intelligence. You might call it a … central intelligence agency.”

The Genome may not be human, but Cora was, and to leave her to die was simply inhuman.

These are experiences I cannot erase from memory, but they cripple my cognition all the same.”