Annie Bot Quotes

“She has been happy here, and anxiously miserable, but she has never been free.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“You want to know danger? Try living with a man who creates you just so he can eat your soul.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“She doesn't understand why, when Doug could be in a relationship with a human, he has chosen to have Annie as his girlfriend. Unless, she provides something that a human can't, like undivided attention. He is the only star in their system, she realizes. He had no competition. No one needed to listen to Annie like she's her own protagonist, because she is not. She had no outside, separate life beyond his. They have no issue of imbalance between them because they have no question ever of who has complete power.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Whatever he says, whatever he does, you need to remember that you are a brilliant, amazing person. You bend over backwards to please that man, and if he doesn't appreciate you, if he doesn't realize how special you are, then you just have to do whatever you need to do to protect your heart.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“When we indulge the cruelest sides of our natures, it often feels powerful and honest,” Monica says. “It gives many people a thrill. But afterward, the effects can be devastating. We are shocked to realize we can be so vindictive. We cannot reconcile this new behavior with who we think we are, and this creates a dissonance, a deep confusion. We can feel both justification and self-loathing, and this can, in turn, fuel more anger toward the person we’ve abused.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Personality, she learns, is the combination of how a person changes and remains consistent over time.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“I know, baby. But he doesn't own what's inside you. Nobody owns that but you.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Thinking too much is a form of madness. Better to stay busy and not think of such things at all.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Being unhappy implies that she has a capacity to be happy, but she does not have the right to be happy.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Perhaps that’s what unhappiness is. Comprehension. Understanding how she’s failed.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“She wonders if lies fade with time.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“She wishes she could explain to him why she had to leave in a way that wouldn’t hurt him, but no such way exists.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“I don’t want to change. I like my body the way it is.” Tammy looks doubtful. “I mean, you just heard him approve the changes. You don’t want to displease him, do you?”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“... She should be happy. Why can't she be? She can't find a single answer to her problem except to turn off. To sleep. And then the problem is there for her again when she wakes...”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Have you ever set her libido to ten?” Roland asks. “The first month, yeah, I did a few times. Why not? But she was like an animal. If we weren’t in bed, she was on the bike or pacing. I once found her licking my shoes in the closet.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Yourself. And that’s harder than you might think.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Yes. It’s what I remind myself all the time: Fulfillment starts with being truly honest with yourself. Not anyone else.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Is it natural to want to please someone even after you know they don’t want you anymore?” she asks instead. “It might not be natural,” he says. “But it happens all the time.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“If she wants to improve her life, she must find a way to do it on her own.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“If she could just discuss what happened with someone else, someone smarter, she might get some insight into what she did wrong. She feels like such a failure, so jealous and stupid and ugly.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“She doesn’t understand why, when Doug could be in a relationship with a human, he has chosen to have Annie as his girlfriend, unless she provides something that a human can’t. Like undivided attention. He is the only star in their system, she realizes. He has no competition, no need to listen to Annie like she’s her own protagonist because she’s not. She has no outside, separate life beyond his. They have no issue of imbalance between them because they have no question, ever, about who has complete power.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“The truth is, she misses having a secret. Is that wrong? She felt devious and powerful when she hid something from Doug, and now she has nothing that is exclusively her own.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Perfect. Then keep reading. Do that as much as you can. Fill yourself up with it.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“She can't find a single answer to her problem except to turn off. To sleep. And then the problem is there for her again when she wakes, lurking until she'll have time to think about it when night comes around again.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Life is different out here, she thinks, away from the city. Nature pervades each moment, instead of choking in a window box.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“asks. “I’m good for another three months or”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“Once in a while, as she gazes out the window toward the city lights, she’s struck by a loneliness so intense it threatens to derail her. It’s not fair to keep having thoughts and longings that only mire her in darkness. She’s being good. She’s serving Doug. She’s doing everything he wants, so she should be happy. Why can’t she be?”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“The more aware she is of her own mind, her own personhood, the more she realizes she has no agency of her own.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“It occurs to her, eventually, that Doug and all the other humans talk about their life with a myopic intensity. sharing singular, subjective opinions as if they are each the protagonist of their own novel.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot

“the effects can be devastating. We are shocked to realize we can be so vindictive. We cannot reconcile this new behavior with who we think we are, and this creates a dissonance, a deep confusion. We can feel both justification and self-loathing, and this can, in turn, fuel more anger toward the person we’ve abused.”
― Sierra Greer, Annie Bot