Quotes from Martha Wells

I watched a little media in background during that part, since I'd already seen the whole clip.

Klar doch, rede mit Killerbot über seine Gefühle. Die Vorstellung war so schmerzhaft, dass ich auf 97 Prozent Effizienz absackte. Da kletterte ich lieber Feind eins wieder ins Maul!

In my feed, ART turned down the soundtrack to say, Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

Mensah's really smart, she can sort-of bribe me and tell Indah to fuck off simultaneously.

our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

I'm apparently an idiot, but not that big an idiot.)

I like endless historical family drama serials, but in real life, ghosts are way more annoying.

I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

all singing "caution" in chorus

Yeah, good luck with that. Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.)

Moon had the feeling Stone was inadvertently teaching the kethel how to be sarcastic. That wasn't going to work out for anybody.

SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn't comfortable.

Dr. Arada, who is what her marital partner Overse calls a "terminal optimist

I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I'm not careful I could be a thing again.)

ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients' lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.) I really missed ART.

In the deployment center, when I was standing there while Dr. Mensah explained why she didn't want to rent me as part of the bond guarantee agreement, she had called the increase in intelligence a "hellish compromise.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

It wasn't a terrible plan. It probably wasn't even in the top ten of terrible plans.

It also told me this wasn't a planned attack, which is what stopped me from putting a drone through Ras's face. (Also, I was running out of drones.)

I guess the feed isn't adequate for all forms of communication, particularly those that involve a lot of glaring.)

I finally had to tell her that I had a list of things I needed to get done and it would go much faster if they would all stay in one place and shut up for a while and sleeping was the most efficient use of that time.