Ann Leckie

“Fuck, you are an ancillary!”

— Ann Leckie

“Good necessitates evil.”

— Ann Leckie

“Don’t forget your shoes, miss.”

— Ann Leckie

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

— Ann Leckie

“My heart is a fish”

— Ann Leckie

“Ships have feelings.”

— Ann Leckie

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

— Ann Leckie

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

— Ann Leckie

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

— Ann Leckie

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

— Ann Leckie

“wake up with everything back the way it should be.”

— Ann Leckie

“My life always seems hopeless when it’s been too long since I’ve eaten.”

— Ann Leckie

“Civilian casualties?” I asked. “There always are.”

— Ann Leckie

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

— Ann Leckie

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

— Ann Leckie

“It’s funny,” Mercy of Kalr said. “You’re what I’ve lost, and I’m what you’ve lost.”

— Ann Leckie

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

— 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

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

— Ann Leckie

“If you're going to do something that crazy, save it for when it'll make a difference”

— 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

“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you.…

— Ann Leckie

“Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.” Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.…

— 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

“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many…

— Ann Leckie

“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used…

— Ann Leckie

“It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in 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

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

— Ann Leckie

“You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing to risk everything to do…

— Ann Leckie

“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls…

— 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

Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the…

— 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

“In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I…

— Ann Leckie

“I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through non-Radchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people. I saw…

— Ann Leckie

“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course…

— 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

“That accounted for almost half of my twenty bodies. The remainder slept or worked in the house Lieutenant Awn occupied—”

— Ann Leckie

“You do have a thousand years’ seniority, after all.” “A thousand years’ back pay,” said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.”

— Ann Leckie