Quotes About Resilience

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

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

That's the other problem with human security: they're allowed to give up.

I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself.

And it wasn't like the company was afraid of GrayCris, but they had to teach them a lesson. (The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)

I felt a wave of non-caring about to come over me, and I knew I couldn't let it. If I was going to follow my plan, such as it was, I needed to care. If I let myself not care, then there was no telling where I'd end up.

Now that I knew something was hacking the security cameras to watch me, I could use countermeasures. I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

So that was what had happened before the survey. Now we're here, ready for the next major disaster. (Spoiler alert.)

WHEN I GOT BACK to HaveRatton Station, a bunch of humans tried to kill me. Considering how much I'd been thinking about killing a bunch of humans, it was only fair.

I was trying not to think about all the ways I'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part. I had gotten used to the former and I hated going back to the latter.

I said: "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on." They all stopped talking and stared at me.

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.

Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need

I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.

Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.

I don't like planets. There's dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

In the creche, 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.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

Kai groaned under his breath. He had been hoping for one dramatic masterstroke that would take down the whole bridge and maybe make him feel better about his continued existence.

And it also told me I was going to need to go old school to break this fucker.