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21 " everyone had politics, even if only some people had sex. "
― Arkady Martine , A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2)
22 " ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. —Tacitus (quoting Calgacus), Agricola 30 "
23 " ...don’t trust anyone who makes you feel good without knowing why they want you to feel that way. "
24 " Of course. Giving out information—well, that’s what we’re for, here in Information. "
25 " The self that experienced and the self that evaluated, wondered, "
26 " Darj Tarats? Mahit asked, internal query … … and what she got back was "
27 " Eight Antidote had never had any restrictions on his media accesses. He’d watched a lot of people have sex on holoproj. It seemed messy and also made people do stupid things afterward. "
28 " This person has had their hands inside you, and you welcomed them in. Let’s do it again. Here are nice chemicals to help. "
29 " The Kauraanian pet lifted its head and opened yellow eyes. It made a noise like a badly tuned stringed instrument, stood, paced in a tight circle on Twenty Cicada’s lap, and settled down again. “I didn’t think you’d space them, Swarm,” she said. “But this is cuddling.” “It yowls if I don’t,” Twenty Cicada said, perfectly bland, and Nine Hibiscus laughed. "
30 " They don’t even have to touch you to do it, "
31 " There wasn’t an iota of Information Ministry training that covered tripartite negotiations from the bridge of a Fleet flagship, where one of the negotiating parties wasn’t even human and one of the others wasn’t Teixcalaanli, and none of the parties were Information agents except the negotiator. She should write a procedure manual. If she lived long enough to be that bored. "
32 " Perhaps we should try to talk to them and find out if there’s anything else they’d like from us instead. Unless you enjoy watching Shard pilots dissolve from the ship inward. Ikantlos-prime. "
33 " Probably the yaotlek Nine Hibiscus hadn’t gotten stuck with leading an unwinnable war because of sex, though. It looked more like politics to Eight Antidote, and everyone had politics, even if only some people had sex. "
34 " And Darj Tarats says to her, “No. I’m not running away. I’m going to get Mahit Dzmare, and we are going to redirect this war. "
35 " You were a mistake, and so was your entire imago-line, and I will make sure Councilor Amnardbat knows I agree with her. There is no place for you on Lsel. Don’t ever come home, Dzmare. "
36 " QUARANTINE PROCEDURES FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! It is most important for Stationers to listen to the staff of the Councilor for Life Support Systems and to trust their judgment rather than your own during a quarantine event. "
37 " had seemed like the sort of person who made people do things they never expected. "
38 " soldiers and avoiding everything else "
39 " Somehow that was the worst thing about it. Those ears were like the ears of the soft almost-cat pets from Kauraan, that purred and bred in the air ducts and annoyed Twenty Cicada. "
40 " Aknel fucking Amnardbat, "