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system is designed to keep the poor and illiterate in their place. You’re offending them with your very presence.”
“Power dictates acceptability,”
But the misery she felt now was a good misery. This misery she reveled in, because she had chosen it for herself.
She realized, too, that she felt about praise the way that addicts felt about opium. Each time she received a fresh infusion of flattery, she could think only about how to get more of it. Achievement was a high.
She craved praise so deeply that she felt it in her bones. And just like an addict, she did whatever she could to get it.
He acted like the rules of nature did not apply to him. Perhaps they didn’t.
“Sometimes I think this is as bad as the Speer Massacre,” Kitay said cheerfully. “And then I think—nah. Nothing is as bad as the casual genocide of an entire race! But this is pretty bad.”
“But how does the existence or nonexistence of the gods affect me? Why does it matter how the universe came to be?” “Because you’re part of it. Because you exist. And unless you want to only ever be a tiny modicum of existence that doesn’t understand its relation to the grander web of things, you will explore.”
