" Along with the horror of what had just happened, there had been the dawning realization that they had fallen into thinking of their SecUnit as a faceless machine, a convenience, an interface with their security system. But it had taken a sentient being who understood fear and pain to talk its way through Volescu’s blind terror. "

― Martha Wells , Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)