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Quotes About Struggle

I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.
~ Martha Wells
All the humans looked up at the ceiling. ART said, And this is your idea of being helpful. I said, "This is my idea of the opposite of being helpful. I am here against my will and you are going to regret that.
~ Martha Wells
shoved Target One away and smashed an elbow into Target Two's face. I tore the energy weapon out of Target Two's hand along with a few fingers, stabbed the weapon into its chest (it didn't have a sharp end but I made do) and ripped a large hole.
~ Martha Wells
I had only taken three projectiles to the right shoulder, four to the left hip. This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.
~ Martha Wells
The company had never given us armor that nice, though in its defense, our armor did get blasted off us at regular intervals.
~ Martha Wells
as you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.
~ Martha Wells
For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.
~ Martha Wells
Even the humans think about killing the humans, especially here. I hate mines, and mining, and humans who work in mining, and of all the stupid mines I can remember, I hate this stupid mine the most. But the humans hate it more.
~ Martha Wells
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.
~ Martha Wells
Klar doch, rede mit Killerbot über seine Gefühle. Die Vorstellung war so schmerzhaft, dass ich auf 97 Prozent Effizienz absackte. Da kletterte ich lieber Feind eins wieder ins Maul!
~ Martha Wells
CodeBundle.FuckThisToo
~ Martha Wells
I bonked his head against the edge of the hatch and yanked the damaged weapon away.
~ Martha Wells
While being eaten would end all his problems, he wasn't quite ready for so final a solution.
~ Martha Wells
I'm using my own pain." Ziede's eyes narrowed. "It's not nearly as likely to destroy your consciousness and enslave you to the Hierarch's Well, but it's hardly an inexhaustible source." Kai huffed a laugh, though it wasn't funny. "Isn't it?" Ziede bit her lip and he could see she knew he was right. "You're taking all the fun out of killing a Hierarch's High Expositor and stealing his power, Kai.
~ Martha Wells
I choked her until she was unconscious and then broke her arm to give her something else to worry about if she revived too soon. I didn't take her projectile weapon but I did pause to break a couple of its key components.
~ Martha Wells
I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
~ Martha Wells
Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.
~ Martha Wells
opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.
~ Martha Wells
When everything hurts too much, you want to get away from it but you can't, because it's inside you. So you do something drastic because you know it will change everything.
~ Martha Wells
Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.
~ Martha Wells
I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
~ Martha Wells
They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)
~ Martha Wells
can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.
~ Martha Wells
It was obvious Station Security was out of its collective depth here. (At least it was obvious to me.)
~ Martha Wells