89 Quotes by Yoon Ha Lee
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He was as susceptible as the next Shuos to thinking up ways to assassinate people with unlikely objects.
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Feet scraped inside-out next to unblemished boots. Black-and-gold Kel uniforms braided into cracked rib cages. Gape-jawed, twisted skulls with eye sockets staring out their sides and strands of tendon knotted through crumbling teeth. A book of profanities written in every futile shade of red the human body had ever devised, its pages upended over the battlefield from horizon to horizon.
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The point of war is to rig the deck, drug the opponent, and threaten to kneecap their family if they don’t fold.
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This time they’re making sure they can hold what they take: conquest is always easier than subjugation.
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The Kel virtue had been loyalty. Formation instinct deprived them of the chance to choose to be loyal.
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In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity’s far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.
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You always have a choice,” Jedao said. “It’s just that most of them are bad.
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It is not true that the dead cannot be folded. Square becomes kite becomes swan; history becomes rumor becomes song. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth.
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