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November 16, 2021 by achrilock

“The Amaats all sang quietly in ragged, off-key unison. It all goes around, the station goes around the moon, it all goes around.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Sword’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/16/13582/

June 8, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Where are you going, Lieutenant?’ asked the Lord of the Radch.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Justice’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/08/10270/

April 26, 2021 by achrilock

“‘If you just say, This air and water have become a quart of barley,’ Oissen cautioned me, ‘there is no predicting just how that will happen, and thus how much power it will cost you. I don’t advise attempting it, the results might very well be fatal to you. But if you say, This air and water will combine as they do in plants to make sugar and protein’ —these were the words that he was using for those first two substances he had determined to be essential to human food—‘that is far more specific, the range of possible actions is limited, and one can predict the cost of saying so much more reliably.’”
— Ann Leckie, ‘The Raven Tower’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/26/9166/

March 29, 2021 by achrilock

“As the poet said: Like ice. Like stone.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Sword’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/29/8478/

February 23, 2021 by achrilock

“And then I spoke aloud, the very stones of the tower crying out to near deafen you all. ‘I am the Strength and Patience of the Hill! And I am the god of Vastai, who until now has sustained Iraden! And you, little snake, will not be the first god I have killed, nor even the second.’”
— Ann Leckie, ‘The Raven Tower’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/02/23/7755/

February 3, 2021 by achrilock

“And without the publicity I might have let the Rrrrrr take the traitors away quietly. Instead I had to negotiate for their return, or else let them stand as an invitation to further mutiny.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Justice’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/02/03/7294/

January 28, 2021 by achrilock

“Justice, propriety, and benefit. No just act could be improper, no proper act unjust. Justice and propriety, so intertwined, themselves led to benefit.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Sword’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/28/7125/

January 1, 2021 by achrilock

“You know how annexations work. I mean, yes, they work by sheer, undeniable force, but after. After the executions and the transportations and once all the last bits of idiots who think they can fight back are cleaned up. Once all that’s done, we fit whoever’s left into Radchaai society—they form up into houses, and take clientage, and in a generation or two they’re as Radchaai as anybody.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Justice’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/01/6208/

November 6, 2020 by achrilock

“The Raven said he had spoken the deaths of all the gods who fought for Ard Vusktia, but even with the power of every small god of Iraden, even having taken all the God of the Silent Forest had, he could not make those words true. I still lived, and the Myriad as well. The ancient gods are, I have been told, difficult to kill.
Perhaps the Raven thought that if he could just hold on long enough his words would prevail, and he would be able to regain his strength.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘The Raven Tower’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/11/06/4912/

October 14, 2020 by achrilock

“‘What’s under the tower?’
‘You’re not supposed to ask that question,’ said Tikaz, frowning.
‘Your pardon, lady,’ you said, your voice very, very polite, and very tired. ‘I am asking it.’”
— Ann Leckie, ‘The Raven Tower’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/10/14/4225/

June 26, 2020 by achrilock

“It all goes around, it all goes around, the planet goes around the sun, it all goes around.”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Sword’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/26/1002/

June 10, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Who gave this order?’
‘The Lord of the Radch.’”
— Ann Leckie, ‘Ancillary Sword’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/10/579/