Alexandra

“I didn’t need as much air as humans did, but I needed some, and it was really cold out there, in the colony ship’s shadow. This meant that if the life-tender failed it would take me longer to die so I’d have longer to feel dumb about it than a human would.”
― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry

“ART-drone had run a risk assessment showing it was just as dangerous for the shuttle to leave the hangar and return to pick us up as it was to hover there and wait for us to arrive and board inside the hangar. I thought it might be faking its results, but this really wasn’t the time to have that argument.”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

“A liquid cloak to cover the heart and protect it from lethal shards of pain. A fluid wall to keep grief at bay.”
― Anne Bishop, The Invisible Ring

“I’m not sure if he usually drinks this much or if this is out of the ordinary for him. But then again, grief is like an airport. There are no rules or social norms. You just do what you gotta do to pass the time until you reach your next destination”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are