“It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.”

—  Ann Leckie , book Ancillary Justice

Source: Ancillary Justice (2013), Chapter 11 (p. 155)

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