Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2)

by Lina Rather

“I would like to be a person who answers a call when no one else is listening.”

“The worst to me is the waste of lives,” Sister Varvara said. “Potentials. The powers on Old Earth find life very cheap, and that disturbs me. To Mother Lucia, I think the worst was how it ended a certain belief she had, that the universe arced toward goodness on its own and that all things had a purpose. And now we have asked her to lead us, to define our purpose and our path.”

the Holy Lunar Empire, that stillborn experiment neither holy nor an empire;

Quoting Voltaire, eh?