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“In that case,” I said, “go fuck yourself.” Which she could actually, literally do, in fact.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“The silence could have swallowed a star.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“The Kel unsheathed their swords, each tinted differently, blank bars of light. Cheris's ran from blue near the hilt to red at the tip. As they closed with the enemy, numbers blazed to life along the lengths of the blades: the day and the hour of your death, as the Kel liked to say.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit