The Relentless Moon
Mary Robinette Kowal
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There’s a thing that happens to people when they are helpless. They become afraid of things that in their normal life wouldn’t faze them at all.”
“I dug into the thigh pocket of my trousers— by the way, the best thing about life on the Moon is all the pockets—”
“This is the value of ritual and repetition, be it in a cockpit or in a church pew. Familiarity gives us room to breath and to think.”
“I respect secrets, but I would rather have you tell me that something is off-limits than have you give me misinformation. A hole in the data, I can work with.”
“I blame the length on Brandon Sanderson.”
“Following my usual overreaction, I had filled it with mounds of mashed potatoes, boiled greens, curried lentils, chicken parmesan, and two types of cake. Recognizing a cycle and being able to stop said cycle are not the same thing.”
“give him this. Every word Nathaniel sent to Elma was true. It’s amazing how many lies one can tell with the truth.”
“We have our catechism of call signs and the high holy language of acronyms.”
“We grieved, yes. But we carried on because that was what made us human.”
“Trust was earned by actions. Kenneth always said that our collective actions meant there were centuries of work to be done to prove ourselves trustworthy.”
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Book Keywords:
acronyms, grief
