Quotes from Martha Wells

The horrific emotional consequences of the worst mistake of his life aside, Kai had an idea.

I'm using my own pain." Ziede's eyes narrowed. "It's not nearly as likely to destroy your consciousness and enslave you to the Hierarch's Well, but it's hardly an inexhaustible source." Kai huffed a laugh, though it wasn't funny. "Isn't it?" Ziede bit her lip and he could see she knew he was right. "You're taking all the fun out of killing a Hierarch's High Expositor and stealing his power, Kai.

My uneaten client stat is high.)

Let's investigate the dark cave without that pesky SecUnit" group.

I'd tell you to be careful, but…" Kai looked at her through the black film of the veil. "You could say 'be violent' instead." Tahren, who Kai was beginning to suspect had a very dry sense of humor, patted his shoulder and said, Be violent.

And of course I had a camera on the unfolding shitshow on the observation deck.

Oh, don't make me fight you with words, cousin. It will get out of hand, as once started I lose the will to stop.

I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I can't easily interpret.

Prematurely eliminating the visible targets (excuse me, potential targets) on deck might just tip us out of incipient shitshow into full-on shitshow.

I don't know if I can do what you want me to do, Bashara. If I can stay calm and always think ahead, like you do. I'm so angry I could burn the world." Bashara didn't seem concerned. "Unfortunately, someone else has already burned it. We need to unburn it." He looked up, his expression serious. "Will you help me do that, Kai?" Kai had already made that decision. "Yes.

It's not aliens, 2.0 said. I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it. It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens.

I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.

remembered the main reason I was doing this was to

I don't know if I can do what you want me to do, Bashasa. If I can stay calm and always think ahead, like you do. I'm so angry I could burn the world." Bashasa didn't seem concerned. "Unfortunately, someone else has already burned it. We need to unburn it." He looked up, his expression serious. "Will you help me do that, Kai?" Kai had already made that decision. "Yes.

It's a good thing I don't bleed like a human because hostile marine fauna was about all this situation needed.

Don Abene's warm brown skin was lined at the corners of her mouth and eyes, and her long dark hair had strands of white in it, but for all I knew it was a cosmetic choice. She laughed and her dark eyes crinkled. "We're finally going, Miki!

Expositors take away the speech of their familiars, among other things, so they can't reveal any secrets. It goes back to the Hierarchs." Cohort Leader Ashem frowned. "But there's no point to that. She talks in sign." Ashem was too naive for this world if she thought people were only cruel when there was a point to it.

She showed her fangs. "Just let her get to know you, then she definitely won't bother you.

Just a heads-up, when a murderbot stands there looking to the left of your head to avoid eye contact, it's probably not thinking about killing you, it's probably frantically trying to come up with a reply to whatever you just said to it.

I choked her until she was unconscious and then broke her arm to give her something else to worry about if she revived too soon. I didn't take her projectile weapon but I did pause to break a couple of its key components.

No era el tipo de humano que preguntaba cosas que podía buscar por sí mismo en la red.

I'm programmed to help humans." Eyebrow lift again. "You're not programmed to watch media." She had a point.

Okay, maybe I should have been appalled. It was a terrifying idea. It was a terrifyingly attractive idea. I said, "A documentary on the entertainment feed?

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