Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch Book 2)

Do you think it’s possible that any person will ever get precisely what they deserve, no more and no less?”

anything she wants. Can’t she?”

“All of you! You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and