Nuriya

“There were realities the human mind was never meant to withstand, pressures it was never meant to survive. Knowledge is like the sea. Go too deep, and the crushing weight of it could kill you.”
― Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy

“If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“He didn't know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forgot the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning to, you crossed into a country from which you couldn't return. You lived in a state where the ground always seemed to be slipping from beneath your feet, with no way back to someplace solid.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“There again was the delight, the courage, that is most admirable in the Karhidish spirit - and in the human spirit - and though I could not share it with him, to deny it would be a detestable act. I said, without sincerity, but with absolute truth, "It is a marvelous thing indeed for them as well, the coming to a new world, a new mankind.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness