“She’d be top in whatever she did or die in the attempt.”
- from Crystal Singer, by Anne McCaffrey
“I don’t know. Do men kill men, except in madness? Does any beast kill its own kind? Only the insects… There is a wish to kill in them…”
- Spoken by Selver in The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
“For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors—which is the logic of narratives in general—over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.”
– Preface to The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: ‘I feed on your energy.'”
-Addenda to Orders in Council. The Emperor Paul Muad’dib. Dune Messiah
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