A Rover's Story Quotes

“Staring at that photo, I feel almost like I am back on Mars. That I am both big and small. Important and insignificant. A dot on a long and continuous timeline.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“I experience the human emotion of hope. It is a sticky and strange feeling. It is a beautiful one.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“I do not know what tunnel you speak of,”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“I was not prepared for the actuality of day and night. For the darkness.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story

“I think of Journey, and how Journey once told me that the hazmats sent us to Mars because we are rational, unlike them. Because we do not have attachments, unlike them. But I have attachments. I am attached to Rania. I am attached to Xander. I am even attached to Journey. And that is why I am pushing forward.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“Resilience, don’t you understand that human feelings are dangerous? They make humans make poor decisions. You see, humans have attachments. They care about each other and about other things here on Earth. And because of their attachments and their feelings, they do things that are dangerous. We were built to avoid the problems of humans. We were built to make good decisions.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

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― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“Resilience, don’t you understand that human feelings are dangerous? They make humans make poor decisions.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12

“Rania Rania is not in the lab. I keep searching and scanning for her presence.”
― Jasmine Warga, A Rover's Story: A Mars rover named Res learns to feel—facing dust storms, cliffs, and a bond with a drone named Fly, ages 8-12