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She even scoured through those City Without a Map broadcasts, which she’d avoided because it seemed like absolutely everyone was talking about them that year, and it made their voices get high and excited and agitated and she didn’t need
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“We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.”
― The Ghost Road
― The Ghost Road
“Ships have feelings.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend:
The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.”
― The Great War and Modern Memory
The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.”
― The Great War and Modern Memory
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