Martha Wells Quotes

I was only 97 percent certain this meeting was a trap.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.

Humans are nervous of me because I’m a terrifying murderbot, and I’m nervous of them because they’re humans.

I am terrible at estimating human ages because it’s not one of the few things I care about. Also most of my experience is with the humans on the entertainment feed, and they aren’t anything like the ones you see in reality. (One of the many reasons I’m not fond of reality.)

Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

SecUnits don’t care about the news…mostly because the news was boring and I didn’t care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn’t have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

They’re academics, surveyors, researchers, not action-hero explorers from the serials I liked because they were unrealistic and not depressing and sordid like reality.

That sounded like a great plan, in that it didn’t involve me.