Ninja

“I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach

“Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a machine make mistakes? Could a machine believe it made its own decisions? Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself? Could a machine come up with ideas that had not been programmed into it in advance? Could creativity emerge from a set of fixed rules? Are we – even the most creative among us – but passive slaves to the laws of physics that govern our neurons?”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“No one outside of our family unit would ever guess that away from prying eyes, we were systematically tearing ourselves apart. Away from the outside world, everyone in our family started to fall to pieces, and never really recovered. Even though our times together are always fun and laughter-filled, the closeness we once shared is gone. In its place is guilt, regret, the ability to say the nastiest things and, for the longest minute on earth, mean every word of them”
― Dorothy Koomson, The Ice Cream Girls