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“You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

“i was trying not to think about all the ways i'd screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“(“I don’t want to be human.”
Dr. Mensah said, “That’s not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.”
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“that she understood even that much made me melt. i hate that this happens, it made me feel vulnerable. maybe that was why i had been nervous about meeting her again, not all the other dumb reasons i had come up with. i hadn't been afraid that she wasn't my friend, i had been afraid that she was, and what it did to me.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy