177 Quotes by Becky Chambers

Nobody should be alone,” Sissix said. “Being alone and untouched... there’s no punishment worse than that. And she’s done nothing wrong. She’s just different.

We cannot blame ourselves for the wars our parents start. Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away.

The truth is, Rosemary, that you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us.

Time was a curious equaliser.

We’re our own warning.

Harmagians had money. Aeluons had firepower. Aandrisks had diplomacy. Humans had arguments.

A complicated job, but not a taxing one, and one where you could count on most days going exactly the way you’d thought they’d go when you woke up. Compared to the constant familial chaos of home, she valued that.

Are we going for an anchor or a compass? A memory to ground you, or a spark to guide you forward?

The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.