Love and Robotics Quotes

“That was it, the most ordinary of miracles. How, by some strange alchemy, two people can meet and know that no power can keep them apart. It was incredible no matter who it happened to.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“You've no poetry in your soul, Alfred."
"Not true. It's all rhyming and rude.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“They quoted their favourite songs and shows rather than have conversations. Josh was so bored he could scream.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Alfred wondered by which definition sneaking into somebody's house to have sex with their husband constituted 'nothing wrong.' Robots had such peculiar logic.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“There was something so lewd about Josh making the moves. Straddling him, stroking him, sucking his neck. When he took off his shirt and sat on top of his cock, Alfred thought he would faint. "Damn, you're beautiful," he whispered.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“You meet someone, get to know them, and one day it's there. You think, 'Of course it's you. It could never have been anyone else.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“When I'm with him, I feel real. I'm not a machine because he doesn't see me as one.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Round and round they went, the old joke of lover and beloved. Talk about humiliating.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“During sex you see someone as they truly are: no blindfolds, no illusions.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“I have a friend.'

He saved the thought for quiet moments, took it out to admire like a medal.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Not another fucking dragon!”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Neither had said 'love' first. Alfred had a superstitious dread of the word. He was always the first to say it.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Take a deep breath. Better. Only it wasn't. It only delayed acceptance of the inevitable, around the corner of every thought he had.

I'm in love with Josh.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“As a young man he'd acted like he was God's gift and when you do that, people play along.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Fuck me already, Your Majesty!”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“What if a human and a robot can be bound by genuine affection, passion and sympathy - in other words, love? Think of the pair bonds our ancestors would have found outrageous: love between people of different races, love between people of the same sex. Could it be we're on the wrong side of history, judging something we don't understand?”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Then they all fucked" is not a legitimate storytelling tool.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“All that mattered was how to put those words, so torturous and ordinary, so momentous and overused. 'I love you.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Sometimes you meet someone and your number's up. You fall in love. First your mind, next your emotions. Then, and only then, you're ready to fall in love with your body.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“What did the ancients say? 'To love when you're old is a grave misfortune?' No shit. Especially when you're a weathered crock in love with an immortal boy.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“He'd been in love before, he knew the shape and colour of it. It's a frightening experience even in ordinary circumstances. You're offering yourself to somebody else, giving them the power of God over you. It's the greatest glory if they accept, the greatest curse if they don't. This was nothing like ordinary circumstances. This was a love that, if discovered, could destroy him. Society decreed he couldn't touch Josh, just as he realised how desperately he wanted to.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics

“Better to be queer than a bloody fool. He was who he was and apologised to no one.”
― Rachael Eyre, Love and Robotics