Quotes from Martha Wells

But I couldn't ignore it. I mean, I guess I couldn't. Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.

Then there was Asshole Research Transport. ART's official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, 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.)

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.

think you're emotionally compromised right now." That was Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that was so completely not true. Stupid humans. Sure, I'd had an emotional breakdown with the whole evisceration thing, but I was fine now, despite the drop in performance reliability. Absolutely fine. And I had to kill the rest of the Targets in the extremely painful ways I'd been visualizing.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it.

I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

Iris: "Peri, you can't bomb the colony." Perihelion: "You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all "but what if it takes over the station's systems and kills everybody" and Pin-Lee told them "if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now," which in hindsight was probably not the best response.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.

1) CodeBundle.LockItDown had closed all the hatches on board except those directly between SecUnit 3's position and the shuttle access. 2) CodeBundle.FuckThem had fried all targetDrones. 3) CodeBundle.FuckThisToo had cut the connections between the solid-state screen device and the humans' implants. Oh, and I shut down life support on the bridge so the Targets in there would be thinking about other things besides restarting their screen.

The whole group had been remarkably drama-free so far, which I appreciated. The last few contracts had been like being an involuntary bystander in one of the entertainment feed's multi-partner relationship serials except I'd hated the whole cast.

Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order?

I wasn't going to let him hurt me." I said, "If I thought he was going to hurt you, I'd be disposing of his body. I don't fuck around, either.

Not that a lot of them had asked for it, or had listened to me. Not that I'm bitter about that, or anything.

Amena gave up on the mask and gave me her full attention. "You look angry." "That's just something my face does sometimes." This is why helmets with opaque face plates are a good idea. Amena snorted in disbelief. "Yes, when you're angry.

How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second by second basis, I still have no idea

Humans touch stuff all the time, I wish they wouldn't.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.