Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

by Martha Wells

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

said, “Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”