Jack

“Inoshiro laughed. "So what am I now? Wise enough to be weak? Or strong enough to be foolish?”
― Greg Egan, Diaspora

“Our modern moths have bounced so many times off lightbulbs, they aren’t prepared for torches, and forget that wings can burn.”
― Ada Palmer, Seven Surrenders

“Just because some of what led Earth to this crisis is our fault, yours mine, doesn't mean we can't still do real good. We're still here. Alive. We have the ability to act, and choose, and achieve. That's real. Even if it seems dwarfed by past mistakes, those mistakes aren't a negative number, they don't cancel out the good things we do now, don't make an insurmountable pit we have to climb back out of to start at zero. We can do good, and our pasts don't take that possibility away, not while we still live and breathe. And try.”
― Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars

“You think you’ve uncovered a great mystery. You have no idea. You haven’t even scratched the surface of the history of the Empire.”
― Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers