““Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?” Khouri had asked.
“Heard of it,” Volyova said. “Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?””

— Alastair Reynolds, book Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).

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