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"Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, "the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, 'Lo! A destructed ass.' The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh." "That’s three jobs," said Harrowhark.

—Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

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"If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you'll get seven different answers."

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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"I wish I could understand experiences I'm incapable of having."

- Splendid Speckled Mosscap, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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I teach them reading and disrespect for authority, and I consider my work well done.

- Nick Harkaway, Gnomon

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"... old women must know something, or they wouldn't live to gather wrinkles and yell from their stoops."

- Inej, Six of Crows

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It is amazing how disconcerting a single, vile, manipulative person can be even if you have never and (hopefully) will never see them. The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing. This was not the first time someone had made me feel this way, but it was the first time it had happened through the internet, and it was enough to make me want to withdraw from the whole thing for a moment.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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Aster said sister because she knew sisters could not choose to unsister themselves when their lives diverged dramatically. Friends who hated each other were no longer friends. Sisters who hated each other remained sisters, despite long silences, feuds, and deliberate misunderstandings.

An Unkindness of Ghosts

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There is no such thing as creation, merely a shuffling of parts. All birth is rebirth in disguise.

An Unkindness of Ghosts

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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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An obscure experimental form of government where citizens choose their own leaders or policies by voting on them.

On democracy, according to Jedao, Ninefox Gambit

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The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.

Jedao, from Ninefox Gambit

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When the sun finally returned to the Arctic Circle and stained the gray sky with blazing streaks of pink, Augustine was outside, waiting.

Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

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If truth had a shape, her words fit its boundaries.

Jy Yang, The Red Threads of Fortune

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#mood

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As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things. First, she was traveling through open space. Second, she was about to start a new job, one she could not screw up. Third, she had bribed a government official into giving her a new identity file. None of this information was new, but it wasn't pleasant to wake up to.

Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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Sound struggled to make its way through the thick synth-amneo fluid. Once it reached Maria Arena's ears, it sounded like a chainsaw: loud, insistent, and unending. She couldn't make out the words, but it didn't sound like a situation she wanted to be involved in.

Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty

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