The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were to consider all the possible consequences of all one’s possible choices, no one would move a millimeter, or even dare to breathe for fear of the ultimate results. Ann Leckie
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  2. In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I was–even, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I had worked as a cook, a janitor, a pilot. I...

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