216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

I found myself atop one of these. And I began to wonder why that was. I ought to have been pressed flat as everything else had been, trapped under the glacier or buried under the debris that had accumulated on its surface over so very long. But I had not. I had stayed above the ice, and now I sat on this new, rounded hill surrounded by rolling, treeless, grass-covered plain.

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it’s difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren.

Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist and will influence your actions. Your choices.

Those green fields we’d flown over, all that tea, the complicated production, was not a matter of maximizing cost efficiency – no, the point of Daughter of Fishes was prestige.

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.

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

You don’t need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you’re trying to do. And then you need to do it.

Aenda Crav,” said Garal, eir tone mild but eir voice still loud enough to carry halfway across the plaza, “and Thers Rathem, and you, Chorem Caellas, you all flew here from the capital this morning so you could shout questions at me in person, but you can’t bring yourself to use the name I want to go by. None of you can, apparently, except for District Voice here.

I will share one of them with you now: most people don’t want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things.