“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 ...”

“Ships have feelings.”

“If thats what youre willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?”

“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 ...”

“Good necessitates evil.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”