57 quotes found
“Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.”
“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”
“I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.”
“It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory...”
“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”
“And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.”
“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”
“In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday alw...”
“Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”
“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had ar...”
“In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.”
“It really is better to be lucky than to be good.”
“At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.”
“What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?”
“Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?”
“Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?”
“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”
“It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.”
“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.”
