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“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

“....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

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

“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the weathly has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say "no".”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi