Anyway, give me a trash heap over a grave any day. A grave tells you how people act when they’re on their best behavior in front of Death. Trash heaps tell you how they actually lived.
“So, I’m awkward with actual humans. It’s not paranoia about my hacked governor module, and it’s not them; it’s me. I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
“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.”
― All Systems Red
― All Systems Red
“New achievement! PETA Enthusiast! You somehow managed to remove the hostility of an aggravated”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“The moon has darkness in her midst”
― Autumn of the Grimoire
― Autumn of the Grimoire
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