On a Red Station, Drifting Quotes

“It’s this place, this wretched place, where they never stop watching, where they never stop judging. It makes monsters out of us.”
― Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting

“She wanted to apologize again, but how many times could she repeat empty words without becoming empty herself?”
― Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting

“Are not friends and sworn brothers as important as blood-brothers? A true friend will know your heart, and hear the roar of running waters and the distant wind over the mountains in the song of your zither, without any need for you to speak aloud.”
― Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting

“We study the past so that we may know the future. Why not study abroad, so that we may know ourselves?”
― Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting