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“You throw the lever or don’t, hit one person with the trolley or let five other innocents die, and maybe that’s murder, and maybe that’s something that’s going to stay on your conscience or stain your soul for all eternity. But someone put you there, alone and helpless, in front of the lever. Someone set you up, someone tied those people to the tracks.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“People shouldn’t have to be afraid, Adam. Of anything. The universe is vast and terrifying and unthinkably dangerous and you deserve to be protected. To be kept safe and sound. Because otherwise those terrible things rule you and fear rules you and you can’t be who you really are. Freedom means no fear.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“I told Tula "I can carry you." She seemed ok with that and held up her arms. I picked her up and was going to tell her to put her arms around my neck and hold on but she immediately clamped on to me like a tentacled parasite in a horror show.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse [Dramatized Adaptation]