Trike

“Every revolutionary group I ever knew spent far longer clutching for how to describe what they were than talking about what they were going to do.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“Sometimes you go through your whole life not rocking the boat and they throw you over the side anyway.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap your fellow time warrior on the shoulder only to find that, from their perspective, it’s before the pair of you ever met and then they’re trying to stick a gun up your nose and… take it from me, it’s a real faux pas; the social anxiety alone was enough to justify burning it all down).”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

“There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this appears to be just as true of present-day hunter-gatherers as anybody else. Many seem to find the prospect of living their entire lives surrounded by close relatives so unpleasant that they will travel very long distances just to get away from them.”
― David Graeber, David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity