220 Quotes by Martha Wells

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. “The log confirms it because that’s what the Unit believes happened.” Bharadwaj sighed. “Yet here I sit, alive.

Gurathin sighed and rubbed his face and looked off into the distance, like he regretted all his life choices that had led to him standing here right now.

We’re cheaply produced and we suck.

No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.

Iris: “Peri, you can’t bomb the colony.” Perihelion: “You are incorrect, Iris, I can bomb the colony.

All right,” she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.

In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.

I couldn’t pin down what was bothering me. Scan was negative, and this far away from the team there was no ambient sound except the whisper through the air system. Maybe it was the lack of security camera access, but I’d been in worse places with no cameras. Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal? Whatever, there was no knowledge base here to look it up.

Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this.