Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 12:31PM
Drew Wolfe

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.


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