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The Minotaur worked on the grounds when my mother was headmistress; creatures weren’t allowed on staff then. I dare him to hold that against me. I dare them fucking all.
“It is absolutely vital that appropriate levels of intrusive micromanagement, divisive paranoia, bullying, and the threat of arbitrary punishments are maintained, so that we can truly re-create the folkways of the past. Also a propensity for calling meetings at regular, and indeed irregular, intervals.
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
“On this basis, either everything of sufficient complexity is sentient, whether it feels itself to be or not, or nothing is,” Gethli tells her. “We tend towards the latter. We know we don’t think, so why should anything else?”
― Children of Memory
― Children of Memory
“They were part of the problem, even though they never actively did bad things to people. They just benefited from all the bad things that had been done.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“Now we kick her ass until candy comes out,” said Gideon. “Oh, damn, Nonagesimus, don’t cry, we can’t fight her if you’re crying.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone's shit. She unsheathed her sword. She slid her gauntlet over her hand, and tightened the wrist straps with her teeth. And she looked over her shoulder at Harrowhark, who was apparently breaking out of a blue funk to experience her own dominant emotion of "oh no, not again." Gideon silently willed her necromancer to put her knucklebones where her mouth was and, for the first time in her life - for the first real time - do what Gideon needed her to do.
And Harrowhark rose to the occasion like an evening star.”
― Gideon the Ninth
And Harrowhark rose to the occasion like an evening star.”
― Gideon the Ninth
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