Yoon Ha Lee

The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.

All communication is manipulation, Jedao said. You’re a mathematician. You should know that from information theory.

In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

But then, war is about taking the future away from people.

I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?

The silence could have swallowed a star.

Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.

There are too many shapes of love to be counted. One of them is forgiveness.