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

“It seems to me that most moments in a life can be called interludes: following something, preceding something. Carrying us forward, with our needs and nature and desires, as we move through our time.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark

“It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward