Ice Queen Wanderer •The Cursed Prophetess•

“Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“In a thousand years, Lieutenant, nothing you care about will matter. Not even to you—you’ll be dead. So will I, and no one alive will care. Maybe—just maybe—someone will remember our names. More likely those names will be engraved on some dusty memorial pin at the bottom of an old box no one ever opens.” Or Ekalu’s would. There was no reason anyone would make any memorials to me, after my death. “And that thousand years will come, and another and another, to the end of the universe. Think of all the griefs and tragedies, and yes, the triumphs, buried in the past, millions of years of it. Everything for the people who lived them. Nothing now.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Odd how automatic masks are, even with those who’ve seen beneath them.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, Winter Tide

“No real endings, no final perfect happiness, no irredeemable despair. Meetings, yes, breakfasts and suppers.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy