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1. "Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing." ~ Ann Leckie

2. "To be Radchaai is to be civilised." ~ Ann Leckie

3. "If that's what you're willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?" ~ Ann Leckie

4. "Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial." ~ Ann Leckie

5. "What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?" ~ Ann Leckie

6. "When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans." ~ Ann Leckie

7. "Pain is a warning," said Anaander Mianaai. "What would happen if you removed all discomfort from your life? No," Mianaai continued, ignoring Seivarden's obvious distress at her words, "I value that moral indignation. I encourage it." ~ Ann Leckie

8. "Fuck, you are an ancillary!" ~ Ann Leckie

9. "The space-dwelling nations of Shis'urna divided the universe into three parts. In the middle lay the natural environment of humans—space stations, ships, constructed habitats." ~ Ann Leckie

10. "Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis'urna." ~ Ann Leckie

11. "The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama – civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future – however fanciful it was – to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space." ~ Ann Leckie

12. "You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all.""A thousand years' back pay," said a dock inspector, in an awed voice." ~ Ann Leckie

13. "That accounted for almost half of my twenty bodies. The remainder slept or worked in the house Lieutenant Awn occupied—" ~ Ann Leckie

14. "Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs." ~ Ann Leckie

15. "...it's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them." ~ Ann Leckie

16. "Civilian casualties?" I asked."There always are." ~ Ann Leckie

17. "Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?" ~ Ann Leckie

18. "...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way." ~ Ann Leckie

19. "Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings." ~ Ann Leckie

20. "Good necessitates evil." ~ Ann Leckie

21. "Ships have feelings." ~ Ann Leckie

22. "Imagine your whole life aimed at conquest, at the spread of Radchaai space. You see murder and destruction on an unimaginable scale, but they see the spread of civilisation, of Justice and Propiety, of Benefit for the universe. The death and destruction, these are unavoidable by-products of this one, supreme good." ~ Ann Leckie

23. "Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is." ~ Ann Leckie

24. "It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all." ~ Ann Leckie

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