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“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”
― The Power
― The Power
“From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live. By the stars, we hope.”
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“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
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