“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”

“Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.”

“Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.”

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”

“Solo en las vastas extensiones del espacio la luz parece lenta”

“Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results.”

“What are you going to do for fun if you can't devastate planets anymore?""I'll have to find another hobby, I guess.”