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“Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it’s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want to love so much we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.' It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Magician: Master

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Sterren realized he would have to rely on his wits -- and those wits were good enough that he knew he would rather not have to rely on them.”
― Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Unwilling Warlord

“Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I would wish to disassociate myself."

"Absolutely, I know how you feel. Most of the fourteenth century, for instance, was pretty grim," agreed Reg earnestly.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“It was too late for Honor, who had managed to introduce her forehead to the wooden support beam that had risen in front of her.”
― Cat Amesbury, The Guests of Honor

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.”
― Martha Wells, Witch King

“Mostly something called Sanctuary Moon.” He shook his head, dismissing it. “It’s probably using it to encode data for the company. It can’t be watching it, not in that volume; we’d notice.” I snorted. He underestimated me. Ratthi said, “The one where the colony’s solicitor killed the terraforming supervisor who was the secondary donor for her implanted baby?” Again, I couldn’t help it. I said, “She didn’t kill him, that’s a fucking lie.” Ratthi turned to Mensah. “It’s watching it.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“I don't think caring is a limited resource. I think the sum of care in the world can be increased. In fact, I think care for animals leads to greater care for humans, too, since we all share the natural world, and the same systems of power that endanger animals also endanger humans.”
― Eliot Schrefer