“War was ugly, exhausting, and above all else, tedious – an odd thing to say about a situation in which there were more explosions and adrenaline than you knew what to do with. But for all the strategising, for all the narrow escapes and near misses, when you boiled it down, war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
― The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
“At first I considered this a kindness, a way of manufacturing work when there was none. I now understand it to be a sort of game, the kind of constant undoing that leaves no actual accomplishment, that makes a person question her very existence.”
― Temporary
― Temporary
“Uprisings and resistance and mass movement require a tolerance of messiness, a tolerance of many, many paths being walked on at once.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“Dependence on care has been pathologised, rather than recognised as part of our human condition.”
― The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
― The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
“After all, a society that takes care of its own does not produce children who grow up dreaming of burning it down.”
― Heavenly Tyrant
― Heavenly Tyrant
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