“Orchestrate a battle; orchestrate a piece of music. This isn't the only language that uses the same verb for both.” — 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
