177 Quotes by Becky Chambers

You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways.

What was better – a constant safeness that never grew and never changed, or a life of reaching, building, striving, even though you knew you’d never be completely satisfied?

It’s difficult to assign value to discovery when you haven’t sorted out the parameters of reality yet.

We are a longstanding species with a very short memory. If we don’t keep record, we’ll make the same mistakes over and over again.

Blue turned the bottle to the back label. Ingredients: Whatever we could grow this year, plus water.

She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.

Was there any day for her that would not involve the same schedule, the same faces, the same tasks? What was better –a constant safeness that never grew and never changed, or a life of reaching, building, striving, even though you knew you’d never be completely satisfied?

And for the first time ever, I didn’t want a brother anymore, because I finally had one.

Humans’ preoccupation with ‘being happy’ was something he had never been able to figure out. No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.