"That particular story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] was written during the dark days of the Bush years. George W. Bush had just been "re-elected" (or elected for the first time, depending on how you count the stolen election) and it seemed like the horror of his presidency would last forever."

“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”

“Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.”

“Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.”

“I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.”

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“I would like to start by calling bullshit.”

“Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.”

“That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.”

“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”

Source : "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.