To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Larry Niven

She risks her own life, Louis thought, then blames me for not getting angry. An attention-getting device? How long has she been doing it? Anyone else would die young, with a habit like that!

"Because she was designed human, before Nessus made her something else. Tanj him! Do you see what he did? He created god in his own image, his own idealized image, and he got Teela Brown. "She's just what any puppeteer would give his soul to be. She can't be injured. She can't even be uncomfortable, unless it's for her own benefit.

“Can you take orders?”
“I was in the army.”
“What does that mean?”
“Means yes.”