But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.

Recurring dreams for some may seem like a punishment

Change makers don’t think change making is someone else’s job, but rather their calling to fulfill. They take responsibility and face challenges.

I find love is more of a bacterium than a virus unless you are comparing it to herpes.

Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.