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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) QUOTES

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) QUOTES

1 " I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

2 " I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

3 " Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

4 " I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

5 " You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don’t want to get confused at the wrong moment. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

6 " Ou alors Miki le bot de compagnie n’avait jamais été brimé, dupé ou maltraité ; peut-être ne lui avait-on jamais témoigné que de la bonté et de l’indulgence. Il considérait vraiment ses humains comme des amis, car c’est ainsi qu’ils le traitaient en retour.

J’ai signalé à Miki que je me déconnectais une minute. J’avais besoin d’avoir une émotion en privé. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

7 " There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

8 " Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.) "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

9 " Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

10 " They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

11 " If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

12 " Right, so the only smart way out of this was to kill all of them. I was going to have to take the dumb way out of this. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

13 " Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

14 " Then there was Asshole Research Transport. ART’s official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients’ lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.) "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

15 " Miki said, “That’s not good.”

See, that? That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

16 " Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

17 " I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

18 " Nobody grabs SecUnits. I hadn’t realized this was a perk until now. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

19 " Frankly, I didn’t know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I’m sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

20 " That’s the other problem with human security: they’re allowed to give up. "

― Martha Wells , Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)