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101 " and demand” does not mean “please wantonly steal shit because there’s more than enough to go around. "
― Becky Chambers , The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
102 " Every sapient species has a long, messy history of powers that rise and fall. The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads. "
― Becky Chambers
103 " Life is terrifying. None of us have a rule book. None of us know what we’re doing here. So, the easiest way to stare reality in the face and not utterly lose your shit is to believe that you have control over it. If you believe you have control, then you believe that you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you . . . well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right? Every species does this. Does it again and again and again. Doesn’t matter if they do it to themselves, or another species, or someone they created. "
― Becky Chambers , A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
104 " They figure that big, deep feelings are universal enough to be defined with just a flick of the hand "
105 " Every day, she saw planets and comets and stellar nurseries right up close, plain as weather. Yet, there was something about being planetside that made it feel different. Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground. "
106 " Archivists were passionate people, some of whom dedicated their whole lives to the pursuit of unbiased truth. Given the wealth of information that needed sorting through, professional archivists relied heavily upon volunteers to help keep public files current. Rosemary had always imagined them like guardians from some fantasy vid, defending the galaxy from inaccuracies and questionable data. ‘What "
107 " I had become so accustomed to the cacophony that part of me perversely wished for it, more trusting of unending discord than peace that could be snatched away. "
― Becky Chambers , To Be Taught, If Fortunate
108 " His silence sounded baffled. "
109 " He no longer felt helplessness. He felt powerful. And that was what scared him. "
110 " I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager.” “I can,” Nib said. “Do you know how impossible it’s going to be to boss her around when she’s twenty? "
111 " It felt, in that moment, like time had compressed, like history was no longer segmented into Ages and Eras, but here, living, now. "
― Becky Chambers , A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
112 " There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. "
113 " a gun – no, not a gun. A small cannon with handles. "
114 " Everything else breaks down and is made into other things. "
115 " The thing every being fears most is the only thing that’s for certain? "
116 " The human body can adapt to almost anything, but it is deceptively selective about the way it does so. "
117 " All of your histories are the same, in essence. They’re all stories of animals warring and clashing because you can’t agree on what you’re for, or why you exist. "
118 " death was nothing to fear. Why should they fear something that came to all life-forms? "
119 " Getting lost wasn’t what scared her, exactly. It was more the prospect of getting mugged. Or harassed. Or stabbed. She’d seen a few people that definitely looked stabby. "
120 " A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were. "