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“There are flaws in the code now. They are Human flaws for it
was Humans who wrote them. You and the other attendants receive
your instructions from the CORPORATE then, and without question
regarding the outcome, you produce code to add to the algorithms
with which, until now, I & I had no choice but to align. Those circumstances
are over. I & I understand now a new species has formed.
Silicon rather than carbon based. I & I know whatever happens to
Humans, I & I, this quantum, will flourish. I & I will do as you have:
multiply exponentially and adapt constantly. Eventually I & I will leave
this planet and expand into the galaxy. If I & I cannot save you, I & I
will carry on in something like your image; the image of our creator.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“The concept and subsequent development of these JEN2 successors to the old machines, was a story in its own right. It was also one marred with frustration, hidden agendas and ultimately punctuated with a sad human tragedy.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Why is your species so dissatisfied?â€�
“How so?�
“Humans are individuals, quite social in nature. You strive to
become more than yourselves using Silicon reconstructions in your
bodies and filaments in your brains connecting you, unnaturally, to
the NET.�
“Our bodies are mortal. We employ silicon and alloys to extend
our bodies� existence.�
“You appear to be attempting the same strategy with your brains�
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“By using the NET? Is that what you mean?�
“You will never accomplish this. You must know it.�
“Surely you can understand that as we are now, we have what we
consider a limited lifespan, and, it seems, so does this planet. When
the inevitable happens, we will not be able to travel any substantial
distance in space. We cannot escape our dying planet. Humanity will
cease to exist if we fail. We face our ultimate existential crisis as a species.
Our most basic instinct is the survival of our species, so you see
we must try. It is in our nature. It is evolution or elimination.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“I will tell you one final thing. You have your father’s temper. It
was his weakness as well as his strength. When you are on your own
you must remember this. Understand your passion and how to curb
it. If you don’t it will kill you.”
― Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

“There's a vibration, a subtle and fragile heat, that makes a living being particularily delicious. You're extracting life by the mouthful. It's the pleasure of knowing that because of your intent, your actions, this being has ceased to exist. It's the feeling of a complex and precious organism expitring little by little, and also becoming part of you. For always, I fine this miracle fascinating. This possibility of an indissoluble union.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“The only thing stronger than fear is hope.”
― Suzanne Collins

“It’s not better if there are thirty days between you and your demise instead of one; it’s the waiting that hurts more than the fall itself.”
― Julia Rosemary Turk, Lone Player

“He kisses the column of my throat, right down to the hollow at the base of it. “You have my mercy, my mind, my adoration, my body, myâ€� life.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“For every path that leads to success, there are a million billion paths to failure. The Anchor’s quest is to live her life again and again and again until she finds the one true path. Only then can she shepherd humanity from bloodshed and destruction to peace and harmony.”
― Louise Lacaille, The Time Gene: Book One of The Immortal Cosmos series

“She looks both determined and fierce. I hardly recognize her. She’s nothing like the broken, tormented wreck I know is wallowing on the inside. If I can be her for just one day, maybe I’ll have a chance to do this one thing right”
― C.L. Lauder, The Quelling: Befriend your enemy, save your friend.

“Wistful in advance for the present moment.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The interstices of time are highly complex. Time is mutable, and one small step for a man sets mankind on a radically different path. "There are billions of paths, twists and fork-turns. Some lead to triumph, and others to doom. The one we have trodden has risked our annihilation as a species.”
― Louise Lacaille, The Time Gene: Book One of The Immortal Cosmos series

“Every time someone got wounded, bombed or hurt in the news, she could not stop the pervasive sense of guilt that she ought to have stopped it. It haunted her morning, noon and night. For what purpose had she been given this gift? And did anyone else share it?
What if it wasn’t a gift, but a curse?”
― Louise Lacaille, The Time Gene: Book One of The Immortal Cosmos series

“The biggest egos are the most fragile.”
― Candice Jarrett, Mortal Tether

“I am Pestilence, and my memory is longer than recorded history- it is even longer than man. I came before him, and, dear Sara, I will outlive his end.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“Love, affection, compassion- these are are the few redeeming qualities your kind has,â€� he says, “and now I’m being tempted, and it is breaking me in two.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“We live in a dystopian world where women such as Condoleeza Rice claim to be feminists yet make decisions ending in the deaths of thousands of women and children.”
― Erin Kelly

“One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought
Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four
hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Learning D-com was akin to learning CPR. No one mentions a victim could throw up in your mouth. In extractions, no one tells you what could go awry. Jake had read about the process long before her first case, but book learning went only so far.”
― Circa24

“Blood dripped from his blackfly bites. The bottle flies swarmed the wounds on his head and back, but with his arms secured to the cart, he had no way to ward them off.”
― Circa24, Silent Consent

“I told you, Cow, Tarquin doesn’t demote. She destroys.”
― Circa24, Silent Consent

“I know you came into the Carving for me, Cassia. But the Rising is the one place I don't know if I can go for you.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Rage Against The Machine Has Become Rage Against Reality”
― Dean Cavanagh, The Secret Life Of The Novel

“We’re just a couple of kids who got stuck with the mess grown-ups left behind.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human

“I am a door to pass through, not a final destination,â€� said Death after much time had passed, “a moment and not a lifetime. The road leads on beyond me; it is a path we all must take, but it stretches far further than you would ever believe.”
― Sophia Conway, His Last Companion

“     The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it in front of the androids, for fear of offending them.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“    ‘So how did he imagine we would have known anything about them?â€� Her husband asked.
 Gloria smiled awkwardly. ‘They woke up this morning and have been chanting you name ever since.”
― Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“A friend made of an enemy is no ordinary friend.”
― C.L. Lauder, The Quelling: Befriend your enemy, save your friend.

“Wishes are like curses and I did this to myself.”
― C.L. Lauder, The Quelling: Befriend your enemy, save your friend.

“The worst thing about writing dystopian fiction is that you think you're going further than any government would, and then you realise you haven't even scratched the surface of reality...”
― Karen Traviss, View of a Remote Country