"Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied."

"The universe owed her a little slice of luck like that."

"“We’ll get him,” Alex said. “We’ll always get him back.” “Sure we will. Until the time we don’t,” she said. “It’s lik…"

"“The high consul is a very wise, very thoughtful man,” he said. “I have perfect faith that—” “No. Stop. ‘Perfect fait…"

"An invisible line in space, unmarked by anything more than what people believed about it. And that was enough."

"It’d be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked."

"It was a day with a lot of ways to die packed in it."

"“When we get out,” she said. “Not if. When. We’re going to need a plan. If every ship just bolts off on its own, we’l…"

"“So why do you hate us? If you don’t mind my asking.” “You personally? I don’t. But this conquistador bullshit? It’s …"

"Every revolution needed its mad bombers, apparently."