" Everybody’s history is one long slog of all the horrible shit we’ve done to each other.’ ‘It’s not all that,’ Tak said. ‘A lot of it, yes. But there’s good things, too. There’s art and cities and science. All the things we’ve discovered. All the things we’ve learned and made better.’ ‘All the things made better for some people. Nobody has ever figured out how to make things better for everybody.’ ‘I know,’ Tak said. She thought, "

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