DeAnna Knippling > Quotes

“worldwide riots when the first AIs gained sentience,” he said. “And don’t get me started about what humans have done to each other through history. Believe me, it’s the same thing all over again.” “But they might have killed themselves along with the rest of us.” “As long as they can preserve what they think of as humanity, they don’t care.” “Then why put other human lives in danger in the first place?” “If you don’t agree with them, you don’t count as human anymore.”
― DeAnna Knippling, Blood in Space: The Icon Mutiny

“had started him grinning even wider. “Wait,” Jack said. “What’s that in his pocket?” Heck glanced down; his white coat had fallen open. His hands went straight towards his shirt pocket, but I grabbed him by the wrists. Heck tried to talk, but his lips and tongue had swollen up, and I couldn’t understand what he was trying to say. Jack moved the gurney out of the way and plucked something out of Heck’s shirt pocket. It crackled. Clear plastic covered…what? Something rigid, thin, and milky-colored. Janey put on a latex glove with a snap and took the packet out of”
― DeAnna Knippling, Alien Blue

“mallet.”
― DeAnna Knippling, The Queen of Stilled Hearts