“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one particular path, and lands in one particular location, is to understand the will of Amaat. There… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do." I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“If you’d refused, nothing would have changed, except you’d be dead too. You did what you had to do,” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous!" scoffed Anaander. "Translator, ships and stations are not Significant beings, they are my property. I caused them to be built." "I'm given to… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through non-Radchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people. I saw all the… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions. — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
