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181 " He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity. "
― Charlie Jane Anders , All the Birds in the Sky (All the Birds in the Sky, #1)
182 " That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane. "
183 " But they meant a noninclusive “we.” Not for the first time, Laurence thought this was one of the annoyingly incommunicative features in the English language. Much like the inability to distinguish between “x-or” and “and/or,” the lack of delineation between “x-we” and “in-we” was a conspiracy of obfuscation, designed to create awkwardness and exacerbate peer pressure—because people tried to include you in their “we” without your consent, or you thought you were included and then the rug got pulled out from under you. "
184 " You have no idea how hard I pray not to turn out like you two. My every nightmare, every one, is about turning into a complacent failure like you both. You don’t even remember the dreams you threw away to sink into this hole. "
185 " While Laurence was talking, a Tater Tot hit him in the head, but he just kept talking as if nothing had happened. "
186 " We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. "
187 " her skin "
188 " Even among humans, self-awareness has gradations. "
189 " You know… no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were. "
190 " Why was outrage only available when useless "
191 " You promised you would never run away from me again,” she said. “I did promise that,” he said. “And I don’t remember you promising not to destroy my life’s work. So you have me there. "
192 " he found himself curious to ask her stuff and see how she responded—because he never, ever knew what Patricia would say about anything. He only knew it would be something weird. "
193 " Caddy engineers had gotten into a fistfight with the open-source Artichoke BSD developers on the balcony. "
194 " It’s a pushy bastard. It goes by Peregrine now. "
195 " I love you.” “Oh.” Patricia was staring down at him, from where he’d fallen into a puddle on the bed. “Wow.” She was obviously processing this. Like, a non sequitur. "
196 " ... was that weird?""Kind of. Yeah.""Good weird, or bad weird?""Just... weird. Weirdness is value neutral... "
197 " I was not even looking, but my Caddy pinged me with twenty-nine points of convergence "
198 " under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices. "
199 " It just … makes serendipity happen more often. "
200 " greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location. "