Starsight (Skyward, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

“Resigned sigh.” I looped us after an enemy ship. “Did you just say the words resigned sigh?” “I find human nonlinguistic communications to be too easily misinterpreted,” he said. “So I’m experimenting with ways to make them more explicit.” “Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?” “Obviously not. Dismissive eye-roll.”

When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”

Do you even stop to think how many strange liquids you organics squirt from your orifices?” “No stranger than the ideas that squirt from your orifice sometimes, M-Bot.”