
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)

(I know I get pissed off when humans don’t acknowledge my work, but why is too much acknowledgment also upsetting? Sentience sucks.)
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
(For however many corporate standard years, all I got from humans was “Run in there now no matter how likely you are to get blown to tiny pieces when a quiet tactical approach has a higher percentage of success” and now it’s “Oh no we’re fine, we can hang out in this objectively terrifying immediately hazardous situation for however long.”) (I’m ju
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It should be reassuring that humans don’t get what other humans are thinking, either, but it just highlights how fucked up human neural tissue can be.
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
At least it was making me nervous for a survival-based reason instead of … redacted.
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
So the next time I get optimistic about something, I want one of you to punch me in the face.
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
It wasn’t dead, it was just catastrophically damaged. (I know, who isn’t?)
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
(The most important part of pretending to be a human is not standing out from other humans.)
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
I knew from media that humans sometimes had the same problem with lack of control of their faces that I did.
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
It should be reassuring that humans don’t get what other humans are thinking, either, but it just highlights how fucked up human neural tissue can be.