We won't command them all for long, but hey: nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment- maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It’s as immortal as anything’s going to get.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.