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?
To be Radchaai is to be civilised. - Ann Leckie
To be Radchaai is to be civilised.
- Ann Leckie
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle… - Ann Leckie
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle…
Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial. - Ann Leckie
Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? - Ann Leckie
What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?
Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead… - Ann Leckie
Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead…
Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is. - Ann Leckie
Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.
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
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.
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans. - Ann Leckie
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea. - Ann Leckie
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.
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