There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

Resisting is worth doing.

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.