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Quotes About Wells

You used combat override modules to make the DeltFall SecUnits behave like rogues. If you think a real rogue SecUnit still has to answer your questions, the next few minutes are going to be an education for you.
~ Martha Wells
I thought it was likely that the only supplies we would need for DeltFall was the postmortem kind, but you may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.
~ Martha Wells
I have extracted living clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable. I'm more than qualified to make that call.
~ Martha Wells
I had a plan, but it was mostly "keep the hostiles off the ship," which is not so much a plan as a statement of hopeful intent.
~ Martha Wells
I do make mistakes (I keep a running tally in a special file) and it looked like I had made a big one.
~ Martha Wells
The only people I've run into who actually want to get into conversations with SecUnits are my weird humans. I said, "I have an alternate solution to both our problems
~ Martha Wells
She eyed Moon without favor. "And you. You have to be coaxed to do everything except risk your life.
~ Martha Wells
I watched a little media in background during that part, since I'd already seen the whole clip.
~ Martha Wells
Mensah's really smart, she can sort-of bribe me and tell Indah to fuck off simultaneously.
~ Martha Wells
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.)
~ Martha Wells
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.)
~ Martha Wells
And swimming back, since that was an ocean-sized body of water between the two points on the map. Or drown; I guess they could just drown.
~ Martha Wells
And of course I had a camera on the unfolding shitshow on the observation deck.
~ Martha Wells
humans and augmented humans can't sign away their rights to their labor or bodily autonomy in perpetuity; that's like, straight-up illegal.)
~ Martha Wells
Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?
~ Martha Wells
Yes, I've had experience with investigating suspicious fatalities in controlled circumstances.
~ Martha Wells
Oh, shit. Seriously: oh, shit. My organic parts had a reaction that reminded me how lucky I was not to have a digestive system.
~ Martha Wells
while I have been a key factor in certain clusterfucks of gigantic proportions and my risk assessment module has serious issues, my threat assessment record is pretty great
~ Martha Wells
But this wasn't a memory ghost/hallucination, which meant it was still a statistically unlikely coincidence, and that was Ã¢â'¬Â¦ statistically unlikely.
~ Martha Wells
eyes, black and glistening like deep wells, narrow to two happy crescents
~ Unknown
There is a powerful sense of liberation in Wells's stories, but it does not stem from political ideas; it comes from the realization that the world is capable of dramatic change and transformation. Habit and routine are ripped aside to reveal a stranger, more exciting universe than we had been led to expect.
~ Unknown
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
~ Genesis 26:15
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
~ Genesis 26:18
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
~ 2 Kings 19:24