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You studied history. You know this. Everybody's history is one long slog of all the horrible shit we've done to each other.' 'It's -- Becky Chambers
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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. -- Becky Chambers
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Do you know Aandrisk hand speak?' Rosemary asked. Kizzy glanced up from the lock of hair she was braiding. 'Not really. Sis taught me a couple of 'em. Just basic stuff. "Hello." "Thanks." "I enjoy your company but I don't want to have sex. -- Becky Chambers
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Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales. -- Becky Chambers
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Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different. -- Becky Chambers
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This is so fucking Human of you. Lie back and let the galaxy do whatever it wants, because you're too guilty about how badly you fucked up your own species to ever take initiative. -- Becky Chambers
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Despite the differences between our species and cultures, there is an order that we all share. The development of a civilization is a scripted event. Minds join together to create new technologies, on its own against threats from the outside, that civilization crumbles. -- Becky Chambers
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After all, Humans reacted differently to coupling than she did. Didn't their brains get overloaded with chemicals afterward, way more than normal people? -- Becky Chambers
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As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. -- Becky Chambers
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It was hard to play it cool when you wore your heart on your face. -- Becky Chambers
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Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself. -- Becky Chambers
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Brothers you can't get rid of. They get who you are, and what you like, and they don't care who you sleep with or what mistakes you make, because brothers aren't mixed up in that part of your life. They see you at your worst, and they don't care. -- Becky Chambers
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The very fact we use the term "cold-blooded" as a synonym for "heartless" should tell you something about the innate bias we primates hold against reptiles. Do not judge other species by your own social norms. -- Becky Chambers
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What do your crazy speciests do?" Kizzy asked.
Sissix shrugged. "Live on gated farms and have private orgies."
"How is that any different than what the rest of you do?"
"We don't have gates and anybody can come to our orgies. -- Becky Chambers
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A rack of mugs rested alongside. There were two hand-drawn labels affixed to the decanters. "Happy Tea!" read one, above a drawing of a wide-eyed, grinning Human with frizzy hair standing on end. "Boring Tea," read the other. The Human drawn there looked content, but indifferent. -- Becky Chambers
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In the space beyond was Hedra Ka. A cracking scab of a planet, choked with storms and veins of lava. A mist of rocks floated in orbit, a reminder of its recent formation. It was a young world, unwelcoming, resentful of its existence. 'That is the angriest looking thing I've ever seen,' Ashby said. -- Becky Chambers
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No good can come from a species at war with itself. -- Becky Chambers
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Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes."
"What causes the other ten percent?" asked Kizzy.
"Natural disasters," said Nib. -- Becky Chambers
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Humans wasted so much time by being redundant. -- Becky Chambers
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Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing. -- Becky Chambers
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The Friends of Digital Sapients were one of those organisations that had their hearts in the right place but their heads firmly up their asses. -- Becky Chambers
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Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes. -- Becky Chambers
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Harmagians had money. Aeluons had firepower. Aandrisks had diplomacy. Humans had arguments. -- Becky Chambers
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Scared means we want to live. -- Becky Chambers
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There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper -- Becky Chambers
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She paused, realising that she was trying to make an AI feel better. It was a silly concept, but something about Lovey's demeanour made any other response feel a bit rude. Could AIs even take offence? Rosemary wasn't sure. -- Becky Chambers
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Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life. -- Becky Chambers
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There were two things about the plan that worried Sidra: the breach of Pepper's privacy, and the part that could kill Sidra if she did it wrong. The rest of it was easy. They -- Becky Chambers
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I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes. -Tak -- Becky Chambers
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Owl had said it was important to know how swearing worked, and it was okay under the right circumstances, but that Jane shouldn't swear all the time. Jane definitely swore all the time. She didn't know why, but swearing felt fucking great. -- Becky Chambers
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I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager." "I can," Nib said. "Do you know how impossible it's going to be to boss her around when she's twenty? -- Becky Chambers
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Change is always dangerous. -- Becky Chambers
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I've never been good with people. I've always preferred my lab. I like data. Data is consistent, it's steady, it's easy to understand. With data, you always know what the answer is. -- Becky Chambers
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Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology. -- Becky Chambers
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With a terrible silence, the sky ripped open.

It swallowed them.

Rosemary looked out the window, and realised that she'd never really seen the colour black before. -- Becky Chambers
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Even unpleasant bastards like us deserve company.' He smirked. 'That's a quote from my wife, by the way. -- Becky Chambers
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How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid. -- Becky Chambers
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There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation. -- Becky Chambers
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You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways. -- Becky Chambers
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Every sapient species has a long, messy history of powers that rise and fall. The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads. -- Becky Chambers
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They figure that big, deep feelings are universal enough to be defined with just a flick of the hand -- Becky Chambers
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Want and intelligence,' the historian had written, 'is a dangerous combination. -- Becky Chambers
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Mistakes mean progress. -- Becky Chambers
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No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief. -- Becky Chambers
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Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside -- Becky Chambers
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Humans wasted so much time being redundant. -- Becky Chambers
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Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away. -- Becky Chambers
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Incident report." That sounds so . . . I don't know.' 'Inadequate?' 'No kidding. I like what Kizzy called it better.' 'What was that?' 'A "monstro clusterfuck."' Ashby laughed dryly. 'I doubt they have a form for that,' he said. -- Becky Chambers
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He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so. -- Becky Chambers
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I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder. -- Becky Chambers
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There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art. -- Becky Chambers
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All the things I've done to my body, I've done out of love. -- Becky Chambers
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Most sapients confuse working hard with being miserable. -- Becky Chambers
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Tea was a moody drink. -- Becky Chambers
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The laughing, snuggling heap on the ground was her baseline. -- Becky Chambers
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Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground. -- Becky Chambers
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That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to. -- Becky Chambers