Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

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

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

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.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.