" They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and...

They were in love.

Sometimes that was enough. "

― Lavie Tidhar , The Bookman (The Bookman Histories, #1)