Alexandra

“I didn’t say anything. (I know I get pissed off when humans don’t acknowledge my work, but why is too much acknowledgment also upsetting? Sentience sucks.)”
― Martha Wells, System Collapse

“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

“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

“There was a lot I didn’t know for sure. I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself.”
― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry