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Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) QUOTES

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) QUOTES

1 " You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and us condemned for even attempting to defend ourselves? "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

2 " You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

3 " It all goes around
It all goes around
The planet goes around the sun
It all goes around

My mother said it all goes around
It all goes around
The ship goes around the station "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

4 " You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

5 " I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

6 " Captain,” I said after ten steps, without breaking stride. “I do understand that this is the Genitalia Festival. But when you say genitalia, doesn’t that usually mean genitals generally? Not just one kind?” For all the steps I’d taken, and as far down the corridor as I could see, the walls were hung with tiny penises. Bright green, hot pink, electric blue, and a particularly eye-searing orange. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

7 " If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

8 " Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

9 " When they behave properly, you will say there is no problem. When they complain loudly, you will say they cause their own problems with their impropriety. And when they are driven to extremes, you say you will not reward such actions. What will it take for you to listen? "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

10 " For my part,” I replied, “I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

11 " Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don’t you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they’re programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

12 " And it’s so easy to just go along. So easy not to see what’s happening. And the longer you don’t see it, the harder it becomes to see it, because then you have to admit that you ignored it all that time. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

13 " Water will wear away stone, but it won’t cook supper. Everything has its own strengths. Said with enough irony, it could also imply that since the gods surely had a purpose for everyone the person in question must be good for something, but the speaker couldn’t fathom what it might be. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

14 " Memory is an event horizon What’s caught in it is gone but it’s always there. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

15 " We are all of us only human. We can only forgive so much. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

16 " Strange, how equally important, just different always seemed to translate into some “equally important” roles being more worthy of respect and reward than others. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

17 " Life is unpredictable,” I said, “and we are not always the people we think we are. If we’re unlucky, that’s when we discover it. When something like that happens, you have two choices.” Or, more than two, but distilled, they came down to two. “You can admit the error and resolve never to repeat it, or you can refuse to admit error and throw every effort behind insisting you were right to do what you did, and would gladly do it again. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

18 " People don’t riot for no reason. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

19 " Oh, how I missed the rest of myself. "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

20 " These people are citizens.” I replied, my voice as calm and even as I could make it, without reaching the dead tonelessness of an ancillary. “When they behave properly, you will say there is no problem. When they complain loudly, you will say they cause their own problems with their impropriety. And when they are driven to extremes, you say you will not reward such actions. What will it take for you to listen? "

― Ann Leckie , Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)