Lisa > Lisa's Quotes

“We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroyed entire worlds - entire species. It took a galactic war to stop us. We learned. We apologized. We changed. But we can't give back the things we took. We're still benefiting from them, and others are still suffering from actions centuries old. So, are we worthy? We, who give so much only because we took so much?”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“Comforts are not bad things, not by base. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make life easier. [...] The comforts we've invented - or that our neighbours have invented - can become bad if you don't always, always ask what the potential consequences could be. Many of our people skip that step. Many - not all, but many - leave here and are too eager to change their story. [...] But I worry about those who think adopting someone else's story means abandoning their own.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“I was four. _New and somewhat interesting_ applied to about ninety percent of my day, in everything from the development of a scab, to a cartoon I'd never seen, to an unexpected flavour of juice at lunch. It's difficult to assign value to discovery when you haven't sorted out the parameters of reality yet.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“I'm an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate