Becky Chambers Quotes

Um, right, okay. Have you taken any courses in interspatial manipulation? Probably not, huh?”“Can’t say that I have.”“Space-time topology?”“Nope.”“Transdimensional theory?”Rosemary made an apologetic face.“Aww!” said Kizzy, clasping her hands over her heart. “You’re a physics virgin!

All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

She would never, ever understand the idea that a child, especially an infant, was of more value than an adult who had already gained all the skills needed to benefit the community. The death of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around.

To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.