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“You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“When a major character died in the twentieth episode I had to pause seven minutes while it sat there in the feed doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics. Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Are you happy?” Jared said. “Mostly,” Phil said. “Better than nothing,” Jared said.”
― Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster