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“Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to dictate where history begins and what parts of it don’t count.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“That was the trick of living under the thumb of a dictator. It broke every conversation, even the private ones.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“Women who did what they liked instead of what other people wished were often accused of witchcraft, because only a witch would be so defiant, or so it was thought.”
― The Mermaid
― The Mermaid
“Traveling between the planets had never eliminated murder. So many highly evolved primates in the same box for months on end, a certain death rate had to be expected.”
― Abaddon’s Gate
― Abaddon’s Gate
“That seemed to be the human pattern—reach out to the unknown and then make it into the sort of thing you left in the first place. In Holden’s experience, humanity’s drive out into the universe was maybe one part hunger for adventure and exploration to two parts just wanting to get the hell away from each other.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
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