Anna

“It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Just when you start to get ahead in the rat race, the universe delivers bigger rats.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, For We Are Many

“I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red