Quotes About Individuality

We are all a little crazy.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me. That's why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human. By the time you get this I'll be leaving Corporation Rim. Out of inventory and out of sight. Murderbot end message.

I can also be kind of an asshole. ("Kind of" = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)

Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.

I have a name, but it's private. On their secure feed connection, Pin-Lee sent to Mensah, Oh, that's going to go over well. When station residents are running into "Murderbot"— That's one of the reasons why it's private.

because privacy blah blah blah

ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option. I didn't have any parts related to sex and I liked it that way. I had seen humans have sex on the entertainment feed and on my contracts, when I had been required to record everything the clients said and did. No, thank you, no. No.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.

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

You are who God made you, not who your father made you.

You have the right to be less than perfect.

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.

Introverted people who balance their energy have perseverance and the ability to think independently, focus deeply, and work creatively.

Stay in harmony. Revel in solitude. Be grateful. Be you. Remember, let your light shine.

Points to Ponder • 75 percent of the world is extroverted. • Being introverted affects all areas of your life. • Nothing is wrong with you. • Introverts feel drained and overstimulated. • Being introverted is something to be celebrated.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?