Helen

“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Alice's eyes sparkled, but not with mirth; there was a sinister candescence to them, lined in more black kohl than usual. 'A knife,' she replied calmly. 'A what?' I practically yelped. 'A knife,' she repeated, unwrapping the brown paper to reveal a smooth, olive wood penknife with the intials A.K.W. engraved in a crusive font. 'I had it customised, because I am nothing if not pretentious.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births.”
― Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

“How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight