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1 " The presence of atrocity doesn’t mean you have to put your life on hold. You’ll arguably be better at dealing with the horrible things you have to witness, or even to perpetrate, if you allow yourself time to do the small, simple things that make you happy. Instead of looking for ways to destroy yourself. "
― Yoon Ha Lee , Revenant Gun
2 " Crying was something it had only seen humans do in dramas, and in dramas they did it much more prettily, at dramatic moments, with swelling music in the background. Instead, the girl was getting mucus on her sleeve, and Hemiola didn’t understand the context, and it doubted she would appreciate it providing swelling music on her behalf. "
3 " In Inesser’s experience, being distracted by shooting pains in your ass never improved your decision-making ability. "
4 " But that didn’t mean those things weren’t worth doing. Someone had to carry on with the small acts that kept civilization moving. And this time it was her turn. "
5 " It hadn’t helped that Mikodez had casually mentioned that his assistant Zehun had named their latest calico kitten Jedao, apparently continuing a long tradition of naming their cats after notorious Shuos assassins.) "
6 " I’ll keep going,” Brezan said. “I have to. If it means becoming more like you, then so be it. "
7 " I wish I could stop caring. And the day after that, scrawled in the margin in jagged, shaky letters almost entirely unlike his usual handwriting: I know how to do that. "
8 " It would be a shame to let all that hostile intent go to waste. "
9 " The first rule of any game was to assume you could win, even if you had to hunt through the universe’s cracks for a strategy, even if you had to turn the pieces inside-out, even if you had to tell so many lies to the opponent that they couldn’t figure out which way was up. "
10 " According to some law of fuckery and bad luck, enemies always arrived at the most inconvenient time, by chance if not by design. "
11 " Jedao wondered how many euphemisms deep this went. "
12 " Dhanneth slid into place down at the end of the table, his face composed. If this was what formation instinct did for you, Jedao wanted some for himself. "
13 " proprioception "
14 " All across the hexarchate were people like his older sister: loyal citizens, decent people in their day to day lives, many of whom had benefited even from a system that ran on regular ritualized torture. "
15 " What the fuck did I do so wrong that a bunch of kids are killing themselves to become corpse pamphlets? "
16 " their vocabulary for fixing problems is mainly limited to shooting them. "
17 " In the Compact, there’s a nascent democratic state backed by High General Kel Brezan. The Kel are having fits trying to figure out the mess.” “‘Democratic’?” Jedao said. “What’s that?” “They vote on everything from their leaders to their laws,” Kujen said. Jedao mulled that over. “It sounds dreadfully impractical "
18 " Mikodez had casually mentioned that his assistant Zehun had named their latest calico kitten Jedao, apparently continuing a long tradition of naming their cats after notorious Shuos assassins.) "
19 " There has to be something better than this, Jedao thought. "
