Quotes About Martha Wells

I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function.

SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn't comfortable.

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.)

And botched was putting it mildly; it looked like a bad human medic had jammed it in with their toes.

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.

A SecUnit could cause it a lot of internal damage if it wasn't careful, and rogue SecUnits were not excatly known for lying low and avoiding trouble.

She didn't want a corporation's excuse for a trauma support specialist poking around in her emotions.

But I needed them to trust me so I could keep them alive and keep doing my job. The good version of my job, not the half-assed version of my job that I'd been doing before things started trying to kill my clients.

There was definitely a problem; the humans needed to recharge or sleep or whatever or their decision-making abilities would be even worse than usual.

This message is for you," he told him. "The next time somebody wants to teach me a lesson, don't help.

I said, "I've reported to my contracted supervisor." (I know, I know, I could have said no, I didn't kill anybody. I could have said that even SecUnits under company protocol use minimum force necessary

Oh, shit. Seriously: oh, shit. My organic parts had a reaction that reminded me how lucky I was not to have a digestive system.

Frost, stop." Moon had seen groundlings spank their young before and had no idea how that would work with a Raksuran fledgling queen. But he was ready to give it a try.

I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)

Leia fixed her with the steely expression that was usually effective on everyone but Han Solo

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