220 Quotes by Martha Wells

Anyway, there was a difference in watching media because I was safe on a transport with no one making me do anything, and watching media because I was trying not to think about all the ways I’d screwed up and what might happen next, a future that was bound to include even more creative screw-ups on my part.

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

Yeah, good luck with that. Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.

But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?

I had archives of everything that had happened since I hacked my governor module, but I hadn’t had as much relevant experience in that time. But what I did have were thousands of hours of category mystery media, so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge that was possibly anywhere from 60 to 70 percent inaccurate shit.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97% efficiency.

She was beginning to recognize it as the feeling of anger taken to such a level it was no longer possible to separate it from any other emotion or thought. In a way, it was a liberating sensation.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.