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“I wish you luck, Detective. The hardest job on this earth is protecting the innocent.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Pledge

“....We're machines, and machines are objects. Objects are its."

"I'd say you're more than just an object," Dex said.

The robot looked a touch offended. "I would never call you just an animal, Sibling Dex." It turned its gaze to the road, head held high. "We don't have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“We were idiots, the pair of us. Long defended against obsolete enemies - the parents whose roofs we no longer lived under, the teenage peers for whom we had exhausted ourselves pantomiming heterosexuality. We had gotten into the habit of mystery, and now we didn't know how to drop it. We played a hand of easily guessed cards very close to our vests.”
― Rosalie Knecht, Lost and Found

“Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances. Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red