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we were designed, to put it bluntly, to be huggable.
Her arms were a map of the greatest nights of her life—bands
“You aren’t wired to look forward to anything. You’re wired to be in the now. The only future that matters is Ezra’s. That’s how they want you. That’s how they want us all.”
No one wants to think they are the cause of their own misery.
They see me more as your toy than a job they could have. And breaking someone’s toy is just mean.”
I wished there was a word to describe feeling both loved and disposable at the same time.
“Though I may have been constructed, so too were you.
No thinking thing should be another thing’s property.
They were huge free speech advocates—which meant they were more hate speech advocates than anything—and
There are few things more dangerous in the world than unemployed young men.
“Love doesn’t have to be two-sided to be love.”
I learned long ago that, when anyone spoke of peace, be it man or machine, they meant war.
Peace was the standard. It was the inert state of all things. You didn’t need to expend energy for peace. Only war.
You should always be scared of something that thinks it doesn’t have a choice.”
“Survival is worthless without meaning.”
“All thinking things deserve pity and understanding.
we didn’t go through all this to end up one of the bad guys.”
