Ann Leckie Quotes

You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing t...

Ships have feelings.

Good necessitates evil.

The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do."I'd g...

The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!

I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve c...

Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they ...

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to ...

You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to ...

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing ...

It all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe planet goes around the sunIt all goes aroundMy mother said i...

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of i...

The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact ...

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your h...

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, ci...

The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I’m not only speaking o...

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many o...

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separat...

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

I love analogies! Let’s have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind o...

In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to ...

If that’s what you’re 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...

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.