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I’m not exactly a “there are nuances to this situation” type of girl. I’m more of an “if it’s still moving, you didn’t use enough ammunition” type of girl.
Were there apes here? I’d always thought I’d make a good queen of the apes.
Look, we need to talk. A heart-to-heart. Heart-to-processing-unit-simulating-a-biological-function-like-a-heart.”
“But…stories say something. About us, and about where we came from. They’re a reminder that we have a past, a history. And a future.”
“You can’t just hit people.” “Didn’t you hit Jorgen basically all the time?” “That was different,” I said. “First I hated him, then I liked him. So I had good reasons.”
“He’s just having trouble dealing with emotions. They’re new to him.” “I think I’m doing well, all things considered,” M-Bot said to Chet. “I bet the first time you had emotions, you babbled a lot and soiled your clothing.”
Sometimes it’s too easy to forget the things you should remember—and far too easy to remember the things you really should forget.”
Can I point out how horribly unfair it was that I kept getting into fistfights with people who were literally three times as big as I was? Next time, I was going to pick a fight with a damn kitsen. Karma owed it to me.
You cannot be defined by your questions. Only by what you do with them.”
Having the permission to stay had somehow given me the courage to leave.
