Samantha (AK)

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

“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“damn, if we die, we die moving, don’t we, not sitting still and letting our lives fade out?”
― C.J. Cherryh, Destroyer

“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