216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is.

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.

You call that rest, do you?” asked Medic. “Up until the bomb went off, yes.

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.

We sit here arguing, we can hardly agree on anything, and then you go straight to my heart like that. We must be family.

Oh, how I missed the rest of myself.

Governor Giarod was fairly good at not panicking visibly, but, I had discovered, not good at actually not panicking.

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were.

Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense.