How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Fought? And you won't go hunting?"
Luciente paused, her eyes clouding over. "A contradict. I've gone through a worming on it, yet it stays." (5.48-49)
Luciente won't hunt animals, but is willing to fight and kill humans if she has to. Even in the utopian future, people's morality isn't entirely consistent. (Though maybe she's worried that if she hunted she'd have trouble explaining it to her talking cat.)
Quote #2
"Connie! Tell me why it took so long for you lugs to get started. Grasp, it seems sometimes like you would put up with anything, anything at all, and pay for it through the teeth. How come you took so long to get together and start fighting for what was yours?" (9.128)
Luciente is urging Connie to stop stalling and kick those capitalists in their capitalist butts. So Connie poisons some coffee. Not clear that this was exactly what Luciente was thinking of.
Quote #3
"But there was a thirty-year war that culminated in a revolution that set up what we have. Or else there wasn't and we don't exist." (10.53)
Thirty years would be a really long, awful war; millions and probably hundreds of millions of people would die in a war that long. Luciente seems to just shrug it off. Is she callous? Does the novel just not really think through a thirty-year war? Or is the exploitation and grinding cruelty of Connie's present so ugly that overthrowing it is worth any number of dead bodies?