216 Quotes by Ann Leckie

It’s always for show, Citizen. It is entirely possible to grieve with no outward sign. These things are meant to let others know about it.

And you turned fully to stare at your hand against the wall, and then down at your feet, feeling that constant, faint, grinding vibration traveling through the yellowish stones. Could you hear me, Eolo? Can you hear me now? I’m talking to you.

I will always, always thank my local libraries: the St. Louis County Library, the Municipal Library Consortium of St. Louis County, the St. Louis Public Library, the Webster University Library, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis Thomas Jefferson Library. And all you interlibrary loan librarians out there – thanks for what you do! Libraries are a public good. Please support yours in whatever way you can.

Every ending is an arbitrary one. Every ending is, from another angle, not really an ending.

And after all, it’s the words that matter, the fact that the Rejection was sent and accepted and the Assemblies established, and just by being on display in the System Lareum that copy has become important. It’s a real vestige now, even if it’s not the one everyone thinks it is. So why should it matter if it’s really a forgery?

If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference.

Say exactly what we told you to and nothing will go wrong, they said. Well, it all went wrong anyway. And they didn’t say anything about this. You’d think they might have, they said lots of other things. Sit up straight, Dlique. Don’t dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn’t nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.” She scowled a moment, as though that last one particularly rankled.

There are two parts to reacting aren’t there? How you feel and what you do. And its the thing you do that is the important one.

I don’t answer that sort of question, I told her, by means of the tokens. I thought you understood that. I don’t foretell the future, except in the way that anyone does.