Ada Hoffmann > Quotes

“SIR, Enga said presently, I SHOT HER. BUT YASIRA SHOUTED AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. “Yes, Enga. That’s called the chain of command.” I BROKE PART OF MY ARM SAVING THE HUONGS, AND THEY HAVE BEEN THROWING THEMSELVES AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU DID. IS THAT THE CHAIN OF COMMAND? WHY CAN’T I HAVE A HUONG?”
― Ada Hoffmann

“Well, it did what Outside usually did in stories. Showed up. Violated all the known laws of physics. Killed some people and drove the rest mad.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“One didn’t need a pliable personality like Elu’s in order to get on well with people. One only needed to anticipate and manage their desires.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“It was mere speculation, and an idea he'd considered before, but even so, the concept of an enemy who might be able to see anything he did at any time, according to rules he was incapable of understanding, made him cranky.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“One small part of the pattern that could still reach out and encourage another. It was enough.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“Universal acceptance can exist, I think, only as a failure of the imagination.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“He was a shapeshifter. There were so many of him on the outside. Maybe the inside was like that too.”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside

“How did you abandon ship when the ship was a town and the town was connected to everything else on the planet?”
― Ada Hoffmann, The Outside