Quotes About Identity

Minds differ still more than faces.

We are all a little crazy.

It calls itself 'Murderbot,'" Gurathin said. I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn't stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, "That was private.

I don't want to be human." Dr. Mensah said, "That's not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human." "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

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.

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

It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.

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.

Target Two whispered something, which FacilitySys rendered as "What are you?" I said, "I'm a Shut Up or Get Your Head Smashed.

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

And "weak" wasn't really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn't have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn't a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, "It's not weak." The

Why does it look like a person?" I said, "I ask myself that sometimes." Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, "It is a person!" In the background, I heard Overse whisper, "Ratthi, get off the comm!

the humans on the Station wouldn't have to think about what I was, a construct made of cloned human tissue, augments, anxiety, depression, and unfocused rage, a killing machine for whichever humans rented me, until I made a mistake and got my brain destroyed by my governor module.

Did I mean a cilia or was that something else? They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, and even those are the cheap versions.

You forgot what I am.' Ramad huffed a breath that was almost a laugh. 'An immortal demon prince.' 'No,' Kai said pointedly. 'Bashasa's immortal demon prince.

I'm not normally afraid of things, the way humans are. I've been shot hundreds of times, so many times I stopped keeping count, so many times the company stopped keeping count. I've been chewed on by hostile fauna, run over by heavy machinery, tortured by clients for amusement, memory purged, etc., etc. But the inside of my head had been my own for +33,000 hours and I was used to it now. I wanted to keep me the way I was.

as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

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.

I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

We needed to find out where the refugees were now, if they were either a) murderees or b) murderers.

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn't wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.