Ann Leckie

“Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they are, and I have…

— Ann Leckie

“It all goes around It all goes around The planet goes around the sun It all goes around My mother said it…

— Ann Leckie

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

— Ann Leckie

“When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious…

— Ann Leckie

“The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement. And Justice was about to land before me, clear and unambiguous. The”

— Ann Leckie

“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see…

— Ann Leckie

“Aenda Crav,” said Garal, eir tone mild but eir voice still loud enough to carry halfway across the plaza, “and Thers Rathem,…

— Ann Leckie

“I considered for a moment what would be the right facial expression, and made it.”

— Ann Leckie

“I turned to look at her, to study her face. She was taller than most Nilters, but fat and pale as any…

— Ann Leckie

“She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn’t entirely certain. It wouldn’t have mattered,…

— Ann Leckie

“Don’t forget your shoes, miss.”

— Ann Leckie

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

— Ann Leckie

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

— Ann Leckie

“The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I’m not only speaking of the small…

— Ann Leckie

Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become…

— Ann Leckie

“You can trust her to the end of the universe. She’ll never let you down.”

— Ann Leckie

“When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious…

— Ann Leckie

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

— Ann Leckie

“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.”

— Ann Leckie

“I don’t think that story communicates the point you seem to imagine it does.”

— Ann Leckie

“Not the center, not the Radch itself.” When most people spoke of the Radch they meant all of Radchaai territory, but in…

— Ann Leckie

“The space-dwelling nations of Shis’urna divided the universe into three parts. In the middle lay the natural environment of humans—space stations, ships,…

— Ann Leckie

“Entertainments nearly always end with triumph or disaster - happiness achieved, or total, tragic defeat precluding any hope of it. But there…

— Ann Leckie

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at…

— Ann Leckie

“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't,…

— Ann Leckie