“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“Our species doesn’t operate by reality. It operates by stories. Cities are a story. Money is a story. Space was a story, once. A king tells us a story about who we are and why we’re great, and that story is enough to make us go kill people who tell a different story. Or maybe the people kill the king because they don’t like his story and have begun to tell themselves a different one.”
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
“I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.”
― Artificial Condition
― Artificial Condition
“Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.”
― Babylon's Ashes
― Babylon's Ashes
“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
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