Sam > Sam's Quotes

“Who says you have a duty to a nation? Who says you cannot reject an unjust duty? Who says you can decide which evil is small enough to tolerate, and which is too great to allow? Who says you should allow anyone to hold such power over you, the power to use your work for purposes you do not understand?”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“Monsters can be charming, when they know you’re watching. They have a magnetism about them.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

“It is the fulcrum that lets the lever of your anger move the world: knowing that what happened didn’t just wrong you, it wronged everyone, everywhere, forever”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“Li’s working in some environment Chaya doesn’t recognize, not Matlab or Octave or even thrice-accursed R (may it be struck from all memory).”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“She hadn’t wanted to admit that injustice was anything more than a rarity, the sad result only when a thousand turns of luck all landed wrong. How could it be the usual way of things? How could civilization be rotten to its core and still function?”
― S.L. Huang, The Water Outlaws