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Martha Wells QUOTES

1 " Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again. "

― Martha Wells , The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #3)

2 " She was beginning to recognize it as the feeling of anger taken to such a level it was no longer possible to separate it from any other emotion or thought. In a way, it was a liberating sensation. "

― Martha Wells , The Element of Fire (Ile-Rien, #1)

3 " If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end. "

― Martha Wells , The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #3)

4 " Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me. "

― Martha Wells , The Ships of Air (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #2)

5 " Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. "

― Martha Wells , City of Bones

6 " Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed. "

― Martha Wells , The Edge of Worlds (The Books of the Raksura, #4)

7 " I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure. "

― Martha Wells , All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

8 " I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

9 " I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist. "

― Martha Wells , Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

10 " all singing "caution" in chorus "

― Martha Wells , Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

11 " I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other. "

― Martha Wells , All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

12 " I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. "

― Martha Wells , Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

13 " I want my crew back.'
Arada's brows lifted, like she was relieved it wasn't something worse. "What happened to them?"
'The hostiles stole them, forced me to cooperate by threatening their welfare, infected my engines with interdicted alien remnant technology, installed adversarial software, and then deleted me.'
I was still mad, right? But there were a lot of keywords there that invoked involuntary responses.
Thiago kept his expression neutral. "Then how are you talking to us if--"
'I saved a backup copy and hid it where only a trusted friend could find it.'
I was looking at the wall, watching everyone and the display with Amena's drones. Trusted friend? "Oh, fuck you."
'That still counts as speaking. "

― Martha Wells , Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

14 " Gurathin turned to me. "So you don't have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you."

I looked at him. "Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms. "

― Martha Wells , All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

15 " I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth. "

― Martha Wells , Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

16 " Our females would have pulled you out of there and ripped your skin off by now," said Moon.

"And that's why we can't be friends," Stone concluded. "

― Martha Wells , The Edge of Worlds (The Books of the Raksura, #4)

17 " I had archives of everything that had happened since I hacked my governor module, but I hadn’t had as much relevant experience in that time. But what I did have were thousands of hours of category mystery media, so I had a lot of theoretical knowledge that was possibly anywhere from 60 to 70 percent inaccurate shit. "

― Martha Wells , Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

18 " The silence was worse this time. On the feed I saw Pin-Lee move uncertainly, glance at Overse and Arada. Ratthi rubbed his face. Then Mensah said quietly, “SecUnit, do you have a name?”
I wasn’t sure what she wanted. “No.”
“It calls itself ‘Murderbot,’” Gurathin said.
I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn’t stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, “That was private. "

― Martha Wells , All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

19 " He hadn't said Tremaine was crazy either. He gave the impression that he was used to being pulled out of a sound sleep to humor people in the middle of a cold night... "Maybe that's why I love him," Tremaine thought, lifting an ironic brow at herself. Then she processed that thought. "I do what? "

― Martha Wells , The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #3)

20 " I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)