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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4) by Martha Wells

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Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.

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“On the way to the hotel she thinks she will shit literally shit It’s only a ten-minute drive She went to the toilet before she left Still passing Creaghan’s it comes on her suddenly so strong she’s on the point of telling Dickie to turn the car around and take her back home but then thinks would she even make it back Should she just say to pull over let her run out to the grass”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“Their laughter covered how she wanted to squirm, wanted to be grateful for being not a barbarian enough that citizenship would have been a possibility and hating herself for wanting to be grateful, all at once.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

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