Lena

“There weren’t words anymore, just a rush of hate and love and rage and such fear, the black terror that had overwhelmed Jared in the lift, the fact that she had never been real and it had been unbearable and now she was real and it was just as unbearable. The thought that someone who existed in real life might betray you.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken

“In one such shop I saw lots of books in the window. I was reminded that humans have to read books. They actually need to sit down and look at each word consecutively. And that takes time. Lots of time. A human can’t just swallow every book going, can’t chew different tomes simultaneously, or gulp down near-infinite knowledge in a matter of seconds. They can’t just pop a word-capsule in their mouth like we can. Imagine! Being not only mortal but also forced to take some of that precious and limited time and read. No wonder they were a species of primitives. By the time they had read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it they are dead.”
― Matt Haig

“If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

“The next day I had a hangover.
I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans