Top 280 Becky Chambers Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Roveg forgave her a few of the exclamation points. Not all of them, but a few.”

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252. “You will still struggle to understand that human constructs are carved out and overlaid, that these are the places that are the in-between, not the other way around.”

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253. “Just because you leave home doesn’t mean you stop caring about it.”

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254. “His silence sounded baffled.”

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255. “All I have is right now, and at some point, I’ll just end, and I can’t predict when that will be, and – and if I don’t use this time for something, if I don’t make the absolute most of it, then I’ll have wasted something precious.”

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256. “We are ready to live out our lives without ever seeing Earth again. We’re happy to do it. It is the most natural end I can imagine, the best death I could hope for. But we can’t accept that fate if no one is ready to pick up where we left off. If we die out here with your blessing, then we die as your family. If we die without it, we die alone.”

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257. “It’s not my place to debate different flavors of belief in the places I visit,” they said.”

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258. “I forcibly conjured memories of that lush world, but they had become bittersweet. I knew that those smiles would fade, those adventures would end. All days on Mirabilis led to Opera. To look at them was to look back on the path that had led to howling and skittering and sleepless nights. The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear.”

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259. “You don’t have to have a reason to be tired. You don’t have to earn rest or comfort. You’re allowed to just be. I say that wherever I go.” They threw a hand toward their wagon, its wooden sides emblazoned with the summer bear. “It’s painted on the side of my home! But I don’t feel like it’s true, for me. I feel like it’s true for everyone else but not me. I feel like I have to do more than that. Like I have a responsibility to do more than that.”

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260. “The enhanced call us misfits – people who don’t fir their intended purpose. So maybe you’re a misfit too. Doesn’t mean you’re not deserving. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be here.”

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261. “They still loved performing tea service – or at least, they loved what it had been. But as they tried to connect to what had once been so captivating, they felt nothing but yawning absence. A void where they’d once been filled.”

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262. “I’m not sure whether that’s tragic or whether you’ve been spared a lot of bother.”

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263. “Of how any sighted individual’s perception of the world is entirely based on the way the structures in their eyes receive light.” Mosscap smiled at Dex. “I wish I could borrow your eyes for a day, see what that’s like.” “Please find a less creepy way to phrase that.”

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264. “Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something to be endlessly used will always, always end in tragedy?”

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265. “I didn’t expect my life to be ending yet, but I suppose it always comes as a surprise, doesn’t it?”

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266. “She wished someone would give her that sort of attention on a whim. She wished she were confident enough to give it back.”

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267. “What is the point of an onion?” it asked with intense interest. “It’s delicious,” Dex said. “There’s basically nothing savory that can’t be improved by adding an onion.”

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268. “I know about a lot of things, but only a little in each regard.”

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269. “We were no longer riding a spacecraft, but a tiny bird, caught in a vast pit of tar, beating her wings so hard she risked leaving a piece of herself behind.”

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270. “A place where a person had ample space to stretch one’s own thoughts while still benefiting from the reassuring company of others at a distance.”

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271. “Aww!” said Kizzy, clasping her hands over her heart. “You’re a physics virgin!”

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272. “I’m not telling you that everything will be all right,′ he said. I’m telling you I understand how horrible it feels to be able to do nothing.”

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273. “They’d never lived anywhere with cricket song, yet once they registered its absence in the City’s soundscape, it couldn’t be ignored.”

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274. “I miss the sorts of gatherings that call for coffee.”

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275. “Clear divisions between right and wrong were rare in her work.”

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276. “Is that a fair trade, their pain for our knowledge?”

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277. “Mistakes mean progress. We make good things. Great things.”

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278. “All of your histories are the same, in essence. They’re all stories of animals warring and clashing because you can’t agree on what you’re for, or why you exist.”

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279. “Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.”

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280. “The robot cocked its rectangular head at Dex. “How do you know when you’re satisfied?”

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281. “With effort, they turned the wagon around and headed for a road they’d never seen before. What are you doing? they thought. The hell are you doing? I don’t know, they replied with a nervous grin. I have no idea.”

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282. “Finding the ocean was as simple a matter as letting a river lead you in the direction it wanted to go most.”

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283. “I don’t care about your task. That’s not what’s important. That should never have been the most important thing. What’s important is that you were good girls who – who found out how wrong things are. And you died, and you were probably scared when it happened. That’s so unfair, and I am so, so angry about it. I wish you had been here so we could’ve helped each other. I wish we could’ve been friends. Maybe we could’ve gotten out of here together.”

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284. “She closed her eyes and let out a tremendous sigh. Her shoulders visibly slumped. She’d always had the ability to relax them; she’d just needed permission to do so.”

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285. “And that’s what I like about you, Speaker. You don’t have any problem telling anybody exactly who you are.’ Speaker cocked her head at him. ‘Yes, I do. Of course I do. I can’t always speak my mind, not if I want to get the things I need or go places I need to go. Everything I do, every word I say, is calculated to make people comfortable. To make them respect me. None of it is a lie, but it is an act, and it’s one that gets very, very tiring.”

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286. “Reflexes kept a person safe, but they could also make you stupid.”

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287. “His bed was low and spacious – easy to fall into, hard to get out of.”

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