Samantha (AK)

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“The worst storms were the ones that changed you. The ones you remembered not for how bad they objectively were, but for how much damage they did to your own world. Banners, planted in memory.”
― Carrie Vaughn, Bannerless

“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.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“Murder has been done for far lesser things than thrones. Most dangerous when the possessors of thrones forget how they came by them.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress in the Eye of Time