Vincent

“Why would the off-world colonists want troublesome, humanlike slaves rather than nice, efficient machines? It's simple. Machines don't suffer. They aren't capable of it. A machine doesn't know when it's being raped.
There's no power relationship between you and a machine. That's been the U.N.'s whole pitch about the attractions of the off-world colonies all along. The big human thrill. For a replicant to suffer, to give its owners that whole master-slave energy, it has to have emotions.”
― K.W. Jeter, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human

“The Night Haunter’s growl was a wet, burbling thing at the back of his throat. He loathed begging,
principally because he didn’t understand it. They knew they were guilty, and justice had come for them.
They deserved this. Their actions made it necessary. So why beg? Why seek to flee from the
consequences of their own actions? Why sin at all if the price was too high to pay?”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Prince of Crows

“Yet there was surely an element of courage - a more substantive courage than the kind required to select a controversial paint color - in sticking to an unpopular perspective even at the price of appearing despicable.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth we live by, or with. They become our lives.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark