Quotes About Perception

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn't look like the ones on the entertainment feed.

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

All right," she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal?

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

The Cordans believed the women needed men to provide for them; Moon had no idea why. He knew that Selis in particular was perfectly capable of chasing down any number of grasseaters and beating them to death with a club, so he didn't see why she couldn't hunt for herself.

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!

Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.

said, "The humans think I'm an asshole, wait till they get to know you." I thought you weren't speaking to me.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.

We're not murderers, Tremaine. We're killers. There's a difference. A small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

I couldn't pin down what was bothering me. Scan was negative, and this far away from the team there was no ambient sound except the whisper through the air system. Maybe it was the lack of security camera access, but I'd been in worse places with no cameras. Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? Whatever, there was no knowledge base here to look it up.

Maybe I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans but I appreciated the thought.

Their expressions gave Moon the impression that was he was being watched with disapproval, but he felt like that a lot, so it was probably just him.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

I'm apparently an idiot, but not that big an idiot.)