220 Quotes by Martha Wells

This is why I didn’t want to come.

We’re not murderers, Tremaine. We’re killers. There’s a difference. A small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.

As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

That’s the other problem with human security: they’re allowed to give up.

I wouldn’t bother searching the small storage spaces until we got down to the looking-for-all-the-body-parts phase.

On the shows I liked best, monsters were always a possibility in these situations, but in reality it only happened around 27 percent of the time. Also a joke. Mostly.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I’d rather climb back into Hostile One’s mouth.

I didn’t stop in my tracks because I have a lot of practice in not physically reacting to things no matter how much they shock or horrify me.