“Surely it isn’t illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn’t entirely certain. It wouldn’t have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don’t care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn’t mark gender in any way.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I’m not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, alter the course of events in ways too chaotic or subtle to trace ... if everyone were to consider all the possible consequences of all one’s possible choices, no one would move a millimetre, or even dare to breathe for fear of the ultimate results.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
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