Translation State Quotes

“You know, your genes aren't your destiny. You in particular. You have what you have, whatever you were born with, but you get to decide what to do with that. There's nobody telling you what those genes mean, what they're supposed to make you.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“I am not a potato.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only small choices available, one must be patient, and canny.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“When you have decided what you want, remember that what one will not acknowledge is what one cannot properly control.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“He’d reached adulthood, not found qualifying work, and so he’d had to take a state job or pay the sloth tax, which of course he couldn’t afford since he had no one willing or able to pay it for him, and no paying job.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“Well, Qven didn't cry for no reason, not that Reet had seen so far. No one did, really, in Reet's experience.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“Nothing is a potato. Things are what they are. But sometimes things share similarities. Everything has an end. Potatoes, radishes, marigolds. You. Everything. That is one similarity. But the potatoes are also like you in other ways. Either they are eaten, or they grow into something quite different. The ones that do not grow and are not eaten, those rot away.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“Sphene had a really bad thing happen, and then it hid by itself for three thousand years.” “That’s quite a sulk,” said Enae, to the mech. “I don’t do things by half measures,” said Sphene.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“We’re doing the best we can,” said Istver. “Even if it isn’t always enough.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“We'll have a whole being-sorry party."
"A party won't fix anything," Qven pointed out.
"Not something that big," Reet agreed. "But let's get to the party, and then we'll see what else needs to happen.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“corpse soldier,”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State

“it was just that seeing something new made the familiar things look different.”
― Ann Leckie, Translation State