Status Updates From Network Effect (The Murderb...

I’d watched family dramas before, but I’d never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah’s family.)

"ART replied, only to me, 'it is safer. I've lost my crew, I won't lose you.'
Amena said, not helpfully, 'your face just got really weird. Are you all right?'
No, it was confusing. I was confused"
Murderbot I know that you've grown up not understanding the concept of being cared about, but you had a literal murder out breakdown about ART being dead 100 pages ago. You gotta realize it cares about you too. You gotta

(Just a heads-up, when a murderbot stands there looking to the left of your head to avoid eye contact, it’s probably not thinking about killing you, it’s probably frantically trying to come up with a reply to whatever you just said to it.)