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“Iron is iron. Stone is stone. Wood is wood. Objects have an uncomplicated sense of self, so to speak. Poeple, though, and living things... their sense of self is... complicated. Mutable. It changes. People don't think of themselves as just a bag of flehs and blood and bones, even if they basically are. They think of themselves as soldiers, as kings, as wives and husbands abd children... People can convince themselves to be anything, and because of that, the scrivings you bind them with can't stay anchored. To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“[...] haar verdriet was zo groot dat zijn omhelzing er niet omheen past.”
― Joke van Leeuwen, Mijn leven als mens

“It was always a strange thing coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd then to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past? How could this place still be there if the you that once lived there no longer existed?”
― Becky Chambers

“What if it’s enough to just be…”

Us, Dex knew Mosscap meant, though the robot didn’t finish.”
― Becky Chambers