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most of my attention was on getting through the crowd while pretending to be an ordinary augmented human, and not a terrifying murderbot. This involved not panicking when anybody accidentally made eye contact with me.
“the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
“Cleverness has a special piquancy when it blooms out of the fraying sleeve of failure.”
― Jack
― Jack
“Like all canned food, love has an expiration date, a price tag, and a warning label. In order to love, you need to check the price tag to see if you have enough money in your wallet, observe the warnings given in fine print, and finish matters before the expiration date. Only then is it a smooth process for everyone.”
― The Cabinet
― The Cabinet
“Reading books will doom you to a life of fear and shame.”
― The Plotters
― The Plotters
“the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
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