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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) QUOTES

1 " all singing "caution" in chorus "

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

2 " 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)

3 " 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)

4 " I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats. "

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

5 " ART said, "I want an apology."
I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)
ART said, "That was unnecessary."
In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now. "

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

6 " Ugh, emotions. "

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

7 " Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order? "

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

8 " Unidentified One sounded even more amused. “You had better have the weapon we were told of, or I’ll take your ribs out one by one and break them in front of your little face.”
I saved that for future reference. Unidentified One seemed to have gone to some trouble with the wording of that threat, it would be a shame if they never experienced it firsthand. "

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

9 " Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract. "

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

10 " I had a stab wound so large you could see the metal of my interior structure, but Senior Indah was too polite to mention it. The medical bot extended a delicate sensor limb toward me. On the feed I told it anything that touched me would get torn off and thrown across the room. It pulled the limb back and used it to check Hostile Two instead. "

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

11 " It's usually a good idea to warn bot/human constructs who call themselves Murderbot before making grabby hands. "

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

12 " 2.0 said I know violence isn't the solution to everything, but in this case...
In this case, yeah. "

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

13 " There's a thing you can do with these small intel drones (if your client orders you to, or you don't have a working governor module), when the hostiles are dumb enough to get aggressive without adequate body armor. You can accelerate a drone and send it straight at the hostile's face. Even if you don't hit an eye or ear and go straight through to the brain, you can make a crater in the skull. Doing this would solve the problem and get me back to new episodes of Lineages of the Sun much more quickly. "

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

14 " It wasn't a foolproof method but it was 90 percent effective. (Foolproof is another weird word. Shouldn't it be smartproof? It's not like you're going to breach and seize control of a ship attached to a space dock by tripping or forgetting to bring your weapon or something.) "

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

15 " TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet. "

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

16 " It's not aliens, 2.0 said.
I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it.
It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens. "

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

17 " I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups. "

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

18 " Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now. "

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

19 " Just remember you’re not alone here.” 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)

20 " If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn’t have time to think about anything else.) (Wait, I think I am angry constantly. That might explain a lot.) "

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