End of time Quote by Yoon Ha Lee

“There’s no honor,” she said. “Only duty.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“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

“Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“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

“But then, war is about taking the future away from people.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“When he sounds sane and the rest of the world doesn’t, you know it’s time to pull the trigger.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“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

“How in the name of ash and talon did that fucking Vidona fit a fucking fungal canister on a fucking bannermoth?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“(Cabbages were a Kel idiosyncrasy. They were adamant about their spiced cabbage pickles.) Appearance-wise”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“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

“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