220 Quotes by Martha Wells

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all “but what if it takes over the station’s systems and kills everybody” and Pin-Lee told them “if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now,” which in hindsight was probably not the best response.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

I had a stab wound so large you could see the metal of my interior structure, but Senior Indah was too polite to mention it. The medical bot extended a delicate sensor limb toward me. On the feed I told it anything that touched me would get torn off and thrown across the room. It pulled the limb back and used it to check Hostile Two instead.

2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case...In this case, yeah.

It's usually a good idea to warn bot/human constructs who call themselves Murderbot before making grabby hands.

It wasn't a foolproof method but it was 90 percent effective. (Foolproof is another weird word. Shouldn't it be smartproof? It's not like you're going to breach and seize control of a ship attached to a space dock by tripping or forgetting to bring your weapon or something.)

TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.

It's not aliens, 2.0 said.I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it.It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens.

I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.