Quotes About Conflict

Anger is about status injury.

I believe that most of us cannot know what we would do, trapped in a situation that required such a seemingly no-win decision. But I do know that anyone wanting to recover from psychological trauma must face just this kind of dilemma, made yet more harrowing because her circumstance is not anything so rescuable as being locked in a house, but rather involves a solitary, unlockable confinement inside the limits of her own mind.

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn't want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.

This is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.

Iris: "Peri, you can't bomb the colony." Perihelion: "You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.

The reason why they were trying to kill, maim, etc., each other wasn't the SecUnit's problem, it was for the humans' supervisor to deal with. (Or to willfully ignore until the whole project devolved into a giant clusterfuck and your SecUnit prayed for the sweet relief of a massive accidental explosive decompression, not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.)

With rueful resignation, she added, "Stone said I should just take you, fight it out, and get it over with." That was typical. "He gives me lousy advice, too.

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.

The problem with gunships is they want to shoot at stuff.

2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case... In this case, yeah.

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

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

You're all idiots," Stone said, gave Bramble a shove to the head, and walked out. Bramble slumped and sighed in relief. "Stone still loves us.

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.

Yellow came towards me and touched the side of my helmet. It took tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I'd like that noted for the record, please.

Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. "We're going to help them fight off a Fell flight." Malachite didn't take her gaze off the sky. "I am." A growl rose in Jade's throat. She shouldn't have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn't see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.

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.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately.

they still had to tell me about what had caused the latest fight. (I don't remember what it was, I deleted it from my memory as soon as I could get out of the room.)

I bonked his head against the edge of the hatch and yanked the damaged weapon away.

He wanted to give her a chance to yell at him in private before he apologized.