216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

She was born surrounded by wealth and privilege. She thinks she’s learned to question that. But she hasn’t learned quite as much as she thinks she has, and having that pointed out to her, well, she doesn’t react well to it.

I had once had twenty bodies, twenty pairs of eyes, and hundreds of others that I could access if I needed or desired it. Now I could only see in one direction, could only see the vast expanse behind me if I turned my head and blinded myself to what was in front of me.

I greatly fear’, Citizen Fosyf said before I could answer, ’that the fleet captain’s interests are musical rather than spiritual. She’s only interested if there’s singing.

An ancillary body might feel momentarily overwhelmed, or irritable, or any emotion one might think of – it was only natural, bodies felt things. But it was so very small, when it was just one segment among the others, when, even in the grip of strong emotion or physical discomfort, that segment knew it was only one of many, knew the rest of itself was there to help.

Ifs and would-haves changed nothing.

Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.

Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important – except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time.

People don’t riot for no reason.

Children are all sorts of people, aren’t they, and I suppose if I knew more I’d find some I like and some I don’t, just like everyone else.