The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

by Becky Chambers

A menagerie of sapients speaking in a dizzying array of languages, shaking hands and clasping paws and brushing tendrils. How could you not love a place like that?

"How could you not love a place like that?"

“I’m sorry,” she said. Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.

The AI said nothing. His silence sounded baffled.