“Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“One day the rotting remains of their libraries will disintegrate so completely that they will be indistinguishable from the world’s wrack of stray eddies and meaningless scribbles, the untide of heat death. The” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“I do my job,” Mikodez said, “because after all the trouble I went to get it, it would be irresponsible not to.” He” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“the value of a game is in abstraction. Many Nirai go in for simulationist approaches, a tendency you share, but sometimes you learn more… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“When he sounds sane and the rest of the world doesn’t, you know it’s time to pull the trigger.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“Blue stands for many things at the end of time: for the forgotten, blazing blue stars of aeons past; the antithesis of redshift, the… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“How in the name of ash and talon did that fucking Vidona fit a fucking fungal canister on a fucking bannermoth?” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“(Cabbages were a Kel idiosyncrasy. They were adamant about their spiced cabbage pickles.) Appearance-wise” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“Some of the soldiers made disparaging comments about the fact that he was a womanform when they thought he couldn’t hear them. But his… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don’t fold,” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image