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Ann Leckie Quote: “Diplomat does not mean nice,” muttered the spider mech. “Diplomat means tell the aliens to leave us alone.”

101. “Diplomat does not mean nice,” muttered the spider mech. “Diplomat means tell the aliens to leave us alone.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “I have very little else to do, and I have always watched and listened and pondered, and besides, the Raven Tower of Vastai is made of stone.”

102. “I have very little else to do, and I have always watched and listened and pondered, and besides, the Raven Tower of Vastai is made of stone.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “This struck me as something of a double bind. Speak and your possession of an opinion was plain, clear to anyone. Refrain from speaking and still this was proof of an opinion. If Captain Rubran were to say, Truly, I have no opinion on the matter, would that merely be another proof she had one?”

103. “This struck me as something of a double bind. Speak and your possession of an opinion was plain, clear to anyone. Refrain from speaking and still this was proof of an opinion. If Captain Rubran were to say, Truly, I have no opinion on the matter, would that merely be another proof she had one?”

Ann Leckie Quote: “My life always seems hopeless when it’s been too long since I’ve eaten.”

104. “My life always seems hopeless when it’s been too long since I’ve eaten.”

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

105. “When you have decided what you want, remember that what one will not acknowledge is what one cannot properly control.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.”

106. “Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious destiny, you take such things for granted. You’re born assuming that someone else is paying the cost of your life. It’s just the way things are.”

107. “When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious destiny, you take such things for granted. You’re born assuming that someone else is paying the cost of your life. It’s just the way things are.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “I found myself atop one of these. And I began to wonder why that was. I ought to have been pressed flat as everything else had been, trapped under the glacier or buried under the debris that had accumulated on its surface over so very long. But I had not. I had stayed above the ice, and now I sat on this new, rounded hill surrounded by rolling, treeless, grass-covered plain.”

108. “I found myself atop one of these. And I began to wonder why that was. I ought to have been pressed flat as everything else had been, trapped under the glacier or buried under the debris that had accumulated on its surface over so very long. But I had not. I had stayed above the ice, and now I sat on this new, rounded hill surrounded by rolling, treeless, grass-covered plain.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Life is unpredictable,” I said, “and we are not always the people we think we are. If we’re unlucky, that’s when we discover it. When something like that happens, you have two choices.” Or, more than two, but distilled, they came down to two. “You can admit the error and resolve never to repeat it, or you can refuse to admit error and throw every effort behind insisting you were right to do what you did, and would gladly do it again.”

109. “Life is unpredictable,” I said, “and we are not always the people we think we are. If we’re unlucky, that’s when we discover it. When something like that happens, you have two choices.” Or, more than two, but distilled, they came down to two. “You can admit the error and resolve never to repeat it, or you can refuse to admit error and throw every effort behind insisting you were right to do what you did, and would gladly do it again.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “No Justice of Toren medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq’s. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants.”

110. “No Justice of Toren medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq’s. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important – except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time.”

111. “Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important – except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Ifs and would-haves changed nothing.”

112. “Ifs and would-haves changed nothing.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I’m note sure it’s possible to have too many of them.”

113. “Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I’m note sure it’s possible to have too many of them.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Then and there he vowed himself a changed man, the special devotee of the Myriad, and publicly resolved to deal more patiently and gently with others for the rest of his life. Five years later he died in an argument over the ownership of a reindeer calf.”

114. “Then and there he vowed himself a changed man, the special devotee of the Myriad, and publicly resolved to deal more patiently and gently with others for the rest of his life. Five years later he died in an argument over the ownership of a reindeer calf.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “I was under no illusions as to my physical attractiveness. It was not such that it would inspire propriety-overwhelming enthusiasm.”

115. “I was under no illusions as to my physical attractiveness. It was not such that it would inspire propriety-overwhelming enthusiasm.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “I am not a potato.”

116. “I am not a potato.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “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.”

117. “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 Quote: “Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it will be made true, and if it cannot be made true – if I don’t have the power, or if what I have said is an impossibility.”

118. “Stories can be risky for someone like me. What I say must be true, or it will be made true, and if it cannot be made true – if I don’t have the power, or if what I have said is an impossibility.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “I was still profoundly alone. And I remained alone, watching the stars – did you know, aside from their regular nightly and yearly cycles there is another, longer movement? So, so much slower, and I was watching this, and admiring it, alone, until someone arrived to break my solitude.”

119. “I was still profoundly alone. And I remained alone, watching the stars – did you know, aside from their regular nightly and yearly cycles there is another, longer movement? So, so much slower, and I was watching this, and admiring it, alone, until someone arrived to break my solitude.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “This priest knew to be patient. She knew from experience, hers and her predecessors’, that it could take a very long time to teach language to a god.”

120. “This priest knew to be patient. She knew from experience, hers and her predecessors’, that it could take a very long time to teach language to a god.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “What is it that makes language a far more powerful – and risky – – tool for gods than it is is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I.”

121. “What is it that makes language a far more powerful – and risky – – tool for gods than it is is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Your father could not be found, the lord Radihaw had said the day before to Mawat. Not in the tower, not in the fortress, not in the town. And yet it seemed that he could not have left the fortress without someone knowing.”

122. “Your father could not be found, the lord Radihaw had said the day before to Mawat. Not in the tower, not in the fortress, not in the town. And yet it seemed that he could not have left the fortress without someone knowing.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly.”

123. “Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly.”

Ann Leckie Quote: “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.”

124. “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 Quote: “My heart is a fish Hiding in the water-grass In the green, in the green.”

125. “My heart is a fish Hiding in the water-grass In the green, in the green.”

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