# Ancestral Night
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Parent: [[Resources/Reading/Readwise/Books]]
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## Metadata
- Author: [[Resources/People/Elizabeth Bear]]
- Full Title: Ancestral Night
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- There was a child that wandered through A giant’s empty house all day,— House full of wonderful things and new, But no fit place for a child to play. ([Location 23](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=23))
- You can’t own a sentience in civilized space. ([Location 38](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=38))
- Singer really was a tiny bubble of a thing for frail warm meat to take to space in—and ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=106))
- And thus my uneasy feeling could have just been my old friend Uneasy Feeling, dropping by to see how things were shaking. ([Location 142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=142))
- while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools. I belonged to a third group, equally useful: I was an engineer. ([Location 3645](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=3645))
- you might be dead long before the problem you didn’t have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it? ([Location 6708](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=6708))
- Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit. But anger can also make you sick, if you’re exposed to it for too long. ([Location 7087](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=7087))
- We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we’re willing to take to try to get there. ([Location 7166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=7166))
- Tags: #favorite
# Ancestral Night
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Parent: [[Resources/Reading/Readwise/Books]]
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## Metadata
- Author: [[Resources/People/Elizabeth Bear]]
- Full Title: Ancestral Night
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- There was a child that wandered through A giant’s empty house all day,— House full of wonderful things and new, But no fit place for a child to play. ([Location 23](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=23))
- You can’t own a sentience in civilized space. ([Location 38](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=38))
- Singer really was a tiny bubble of a thing for frail warm meat to take to space in—and ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=106))
- And thus my uneasy feeling could have just been my old friend Uneasy Feeling, dropping by to see how things were shaking. ([Location 142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=142))
- while humans traditionally divided themselves up into lovers and fighters, I considered myself living evidence that that was a false binary, having no skill with either set of tools. I belonged to a third group, equally useful: I was an engineer. ([Location 3645](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=3645))
- you might be dead long before the problem you didn’t have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it? ([Location 6708](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=6708))
- Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit. But anger can also make you sick, if you’re exposed to it for too long. ([Location 7087](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=7087))
- We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we’re willing to take to try to get there. ([Location 7166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07GNRVY7J&location=7166))
- Tags: #favorite