220 Quotes by Martha Wells

I’m tired of entirely new things,” Tremaine said. “I don’t understand most of the old things yet.

For a being as sophisticated as you are, it is baffling how little understanding you have of the composition of your own mind.

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

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.

I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.

I don’t know why, because it’s one of those things I’m not contractually obligated to care about.

All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist. I said, You know I don’t like fun.

The company had never given us armor that nice, though in its defense, our armor did get blasted off us at regular intervals.

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.