A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

by Becky Chambers

But if you don’t want to infringe upon my agency, let me have agency.

You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”