Anja

“The question is not, said the Myriad, whether distant events will affect us. This is not truly a question-- they can and they will. Nor is the question how we will be affected. One can make any number of careful and informed guesses, but until events occur any predictions are subject to error, to the extent that one's information, or one's understanding, may be incomplete. [...] The relevant question here, it seems to me, is not any of those things. It is, rather, Do you care?”
― Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

“I didn't see the knife until the dude was just about to stab it into my uncle's corpse.
More accurately, I did see it. But my brain didn't register it as an actual, no-bullshit, holy-shit-that's-actually-a-knife knife until the dude, who had produced it from an overcoat pocket, cocked back his arm in a windup to drive the frankly rather substantial blade into my uncle's already cold and lifeless heart.”
― John Scalzi, Starter Villain

“When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Horizon

“The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.”
― Ken Liu, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary"