220 Quotes by Martha Wells

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

Gurathin turned to me. "So you don't have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you."I looked at him. "Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.

I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.