18 quotes found
“Ships have feelings.”
“Good necessitates evil.”
“Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.”
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
“If thats what youre willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?”
“If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?”
“In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I waseven, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I had worked as a ...”
“Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they...”
“The single word that directs a persons fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were ...”
“When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your houses glorious destiny, you take such things for granted. Youre born assuming that someone else i...”
“You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing to risk everything to do right, and I'll never be half what you are even if I tried my whole life,...”
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
“The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. Im not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, alter the course of events...”
“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.”
“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do."I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under your clothes. And even if I could, that's not always a reliable ...”
“Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.”
“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were...”
“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 event...”
