Enosh

“I’ve been thinking about it, and I still don’t understand exactly why what I said hurt you so much. But I don’t need to. It hurt you, and when you told me it hurt you I should have apologized and stopped saying whatever it was. And maybe spent some time trying to understand. Instead of insisting that you manage your feelings to suit me. And I want to say I’m sorry. And I actually mean it this time.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Governor Giarod was fairly good at not panicking visibly, but, I had discovered, not good at actually not panicking.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“I’ve found that not eating is generally a bad decision,” I replied.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy