If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

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 you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.