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Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) QUOTES

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) QUOTES

1 " The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor.” The production of human/bot constructs is just a more horrific twist, a mental slavery as well as a physical one. At least victims of contract labor are free to think their own thoughts. But we tell ourselves that constructs aren’t aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what’s been done to them. But the only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death. "

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

2 " It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing, and there is no safety. "

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

3 " 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)

4 " It’s hard to make a proper argument when you’re both on the same side. "

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

5 " As Ephraim gets up and Ayda can finally walk out of this damn room, she replies to SecUnit’s latest requisition form. It’s for a gunship nearly the size PortFreeCommerce’s transit ring: I think you made this one up. "

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

6 " Bhawardwaj squints as she reads the message, and she laughs. “I don’t even know what that is.” Ayda looks at the catalog image. It’s the thing that fits on a backpack or harness, and has giant extendable spikes. She sends back, All right, I believe that it’s real, but it doesn’t look very practical. "

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