The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)

by Graeme Simsion

“Being upset and complaining because your theory is disproven is unscientific.”

Then she stared at me, in the way that I am not supposed to do to others.

“Fuck you,” she said. It seemed we were friends again.

I had always justified my schedule in terms of efficiency. But was my allegiance to efficiency or was it to the schedule itself?

I was learning some new protocols, that was all.

At the time my decision felt like a rational response based on my assessment of the new environment, but in retrospect I understood that I had been driven by anger at the power structure that suppressed my arguments.

“You changed yourself for me?” “Only my behavior.”