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Information is power. Information is security. Plans made with imperfect information are fatally flawed, will fail or succeed on the toss of a coin. — Ann Leckie

Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything. — Ann Leckie

I was under no illusions as to my physical attractiveness. It was not such that it would inspire propriety-overwhelming enthusiasm. — Ann Leckie

But the angrier you get the more painstakingly correct your speech becomes, — Ann Leckie

'Star Trek' still - I'm kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting. — Ann Leckie

I'm Breq, from the Gerentate. — Ann Leckie

Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist and will influence your actions. Your choices. — Ann Leckie

You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them. — Ann Leckie

You can kill me, you mean. You can destroy my sense of self and replace it with one you approve of. — Ann Leckie

Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing. — Ann Leckie

Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote. — Ann Leckie

Children are all sorts of people, — Ann Leckie

Civilian casualties?" I asked.
"There always are. — Ann Leckie

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. — Ann Leckie

If anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way. — Ann Leckie

It was a proverb. Or half of one. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths. — Ann Leckie

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is. — Ann Leckie

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial. — Ann Leckie

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?' — Ann Leckie

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear. — Ann Leckie

We sit here arguing, we can hardly agree on anything, and then you go straight to my heart like that. We must be family. — Ann Leckie

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

You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all."
"A thousand years' back pay," said a dock inspector, in an awed voice. — Ann Leckie

Just how good of a citizen does one have to be" I asked, "in order to have water, air, and medical help? — Ann Leckie

Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis'urna. — Ann Leckie

I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient. — Ann Leckie

We are all of us only human. We can only forgive so much. — Ann Leckie

No Justice of Toren medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq's. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants. — Ann Leckie

Ifs and would-haves changed nothing. — Ann Leckie

The flower of justice is peace, — Ann Leckie

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away. — Ann Leckie

In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful. — Ann Leckie

Not tea but blood! — Ann Leckie

Now that's something different! I'm not bored of buckets yet! — Ann Leckie

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along. — Ann Leckie

Sit up straight, Dlique. Don't dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn't nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique. — Ann Leckie

In that case," I said, "go fuck yourself." Which she could actually, literally do, in fact. — Ann Leckie

No real endings, no final perfect happiness, no irredeemable despair. Meetings, yes, breakfasts and suppers. — Ann Leckie

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school. — Ann Leckie

I knew and cared nothing about the will of the gods. I only knew that I would land where I myself had been cast, wherever that would be. — Ann Leckie

If that's what you're willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love? — Ann Leckie

It's always for show, Citizen. It is entirely possible to grieve with no outward sign. These things are meant to let others know about it. — Ann Leckie

I will share one of them with you now: most people don't want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things. — Ann Leckie

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through. — Ann Leckie

I had learned to be wary whenever a priest suggested that her personal aims were, in fact, God's will. — Ann Leckie

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me. — Ann Leckie

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

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine. — Ann Leckie

I'd run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time ... — Ann Leckie

Good necessitates evil. — Ann Leckie

We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness. — Ann Leckie

Fuck, you are an ancillary! — Ann Leckie

You call that rest, do you?" asked Medic. "Up until the bomb went off, yes. — Ann Leckie

Security is here to protect citizens. You can't do that if you insist on seeing any of them as adversaries. — Ann Leckie

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh. — Ann Leckie

You don't need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you're trying to do. And then you need to do it. — Ann Leckie

Ships have feelings. — 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. — Ann Leckie

And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? — Ann Leckie

There are two parts to reacting aren't there? How you feel and what you do. And its the thing you do that is the important one. — Ann Leckie

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were. — Ann Leckie

Memory is an event horizon What's caught in it is gone but it's always there. — Ann Leckie

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that. — Ann Leckie

I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals — Ann Leckie

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

It's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them. — Ann Leckie

Good, good. Always remember, Fleet Captain - internal organs belong inside your body. And blood belongs inside your veins. — Ann Leckie

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen. — Ann Leckie

Children are all sorts of people, aren't they, and I suppose if I knew more I'd find some I like and some I don't, just like everyone else. — Ann Leckie

Fuck! Is that what Special Missions is like? — Ann Leckie

Choose my aim, take one step and then the next. It had never been anything else. — Ann Leckie

I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't. — Ann Leckie

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

To be Radchaai is to be civilised. — Ann Leckie

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren. — Ann Leckie

Varden's suppurating cuticles," said Seivarden. "Lieutenant, — Ann Leckie

People are who they are, because oft the world they are living in.
The world is as it is, because of the people living in it. — Ann Leckie

If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good. — Ann Leckie

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure. — Ann Leckie

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. — Ann Leckie

It had been, for both of our lives. Frantic action, then months or even years waiting for something to happen. — Ann Leckie

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club. — Ann Leckie

Have a beer instead. — Ann Leckie

So much is metaphor, an inadequately material way to speak of immaterial things. — Ann Leckie

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery. — Ann Leckie

Betrayer! Long ago we promised
To exchange equally, gift for gift.
Take this curse: What you destroy will destroy you. — Ann Leckie

The point is, there is no point. Choose your own! — Ann Leckie

People don't riot for no reason. — Ann Leckie

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens? — Ann Leckie

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

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun. — Ann Leckie

But I had never noticed that anyone profited from needless spite, — Ann Leckie

Sometimes it feels it's us and Ship against everyone else. — Ann Leckie

In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next. — Ann Leckie

It's personal. It was just that with me personal affected a great many others. — Ann Leckie

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

The natural environment of humans - space stations, ships, constructed habitats. — Ann Leckie

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them. — Ann Leckie

Governor Giarod was fairly good at not panicking visibly, but, I had discovered, not good at actually not panicking. — Ann Leckie