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Becky Chambers QUOTES

1 " There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art. "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

2 " I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes. -Tak "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

3 " Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales. "

― Becky Chambers

4 " To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong. "

― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

5 " She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around. "

― Becky Chambers

6 " Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground. "

― Becky Chambers

7 " Humans wasted so much time by being redundant. "

― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

8 " Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside "

― Becky Chambers

9 " All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love. "

― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

10 " Um, right, okay. Have you taken any courses in interspatial manipulation? Probably not, huh?”
“Can’t say that I have.”
“Space-time topology?”
“Nope.”
“Transdimensional theory?”
Rosemary made an apologetic face.
“Aww!” said Kizzy, clasping her hands over her heart. “You’re a physics virgin! "

― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

11 " Protect your passengers and monitor the systems that keep them alive, the file read. Provide a safe and welcoming atmosphere for all sapients present. Yes, they were someone else's words, but she had no desire to change them. She liked those words. They suited her just fine. "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

12 " Pepper rolled her eyes. 'Most sapients confuse working hard with being miserable... Seriously, anybody working in a job that doesn't let you take a nap when you need to should get a new job. Present company excluded, of course.'
'Are naps good?'
'Naps are fucking great. "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

13 " The scrib brightened. An image appeared, and in an instant, there was no air in the room, no floor beneath her. She would have fallen had she not been sitting. And even so, she still felt like she was falling, but now, there was a warm pair of arms that would catch her at the end, a warm pair of arms she'd always imagined but could never feel.
'Oh,' Pepper choked. 'Oh, stars-- "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

14 " Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might. "

― Becky Chambers , To Be Taught, If Fortunate

15 " Chikondi is not interested in sex, with me or anyone else. But when he comes to my cabin, we engage in another kind of sharing, one that's every bit as good and every bit as intimate. "

― Becky Chambers , To Be Taught, If Fortunate

16 " The very fact we use the term "cold-blooded" as a synonym for "heartless" should tell you something about the innate bias we primates hold against reptiles. Do not judge other species by your own social norms. "

― Becky Chambers

17 " Most sapients confuse working hard with being miserable. "

― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

18 " I forcibly conjured memories of that lush world, but they had become bittersweet. I knew that those smiles would fade, those adventures would end. All days on Mirabilis led to Opera. To look at them was to look back on the path that had led to howling and skittering and sleepless nights. The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear. "

― Becky Chambers , To Be Taught, If Fortunate

19 " All the things I've done to my body, I've done out of love. Seriously. I've gotten ink to remind me of all sorts of places and memories, but at the core, everything I've had done has been my way of saying that this is my body. That I don't want the body everybody else told me I should have. "

― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

20 " In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the easy business of creating them. The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and the person who took care of the little being that crawled out of it. Parenting was a profession, and it was not Pei’s. She could not imagine living like Ouloo, performing two distinct jobs at once, splitting herself for decades until Tupo reached adulthood. The whole idea was overwhelming. "

― Becky Chambers , The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)