If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.

Why is this ship so old and shitty?

I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

Our females would have pulled you out of there and ripped your skin off by now," said Moon."And that's why we can't be friends," Stone concluded.