“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.”
―
Ann Leckie,
Ancillary Justice
“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“When they behave properly, you will say there is no problem. When they complain loudly, you will say they cause their own problems with their impropriety. And when they are driven to extremes, you say you will not reward such actions. What will it take for you to listen?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“For my part,” I replied, “I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don’t you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they’re programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“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.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy
“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“...it’s so easy, isn’t it, to decide the people you’re fighting aren’t really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“It’s the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren’t small at all.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“When they behave properly, you will say there is no problem. When they complain loudly, you will say they cause their own problems with their impropriety. And when they are driven to extremes, you say you will not reward such actions. What will it take for you to listen?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“For my part,” I replied, “I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don’t you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they’re programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“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.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy
“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“...it’s so easy, isn’t it, to decide the people you’re fighting aren’t really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
“Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“It’s the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren’t small at all.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
“We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.” ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
