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Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.

You studied history. You know this. Everybody's history is one long slog of all the horrible shit we've done to each other.' 'It's

Mistakes mean progress.

Humans wasted so much time being redundant.

It was hard to play it cool when you wore your heart on your face.

I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

Scared means we want to live.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside

No good can come from a species at war with itself.

Most sapients confuse working hard with being miserable.

The laughing, snuggling heap on the ground was her baseline.

They figure that big, deep feelings are universal enough to be defined with just a flick of the hand

Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper

There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation.

You Humans really do cripple yourselves with your belief that you all think in unique ways.

As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.

Harmagians had money. Aeluons had firepower. Aandrisks had diplomacy. Humans had arguments.

Change is always dangerous.

All the things I've done to my body, I've done out of love.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing.

I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager." "I can," Nib said. "Do you know how impossible it's going to be to boss her around when she's twenty?

The Friends of Digital Sapients were one of those organisations that had their hearts in the right place but their heads firmly up their asses.

Sometimes the very best thing we can do is walk away.

Even unpleasant bastards like us deserve company.' He smirked. 'That's a quote from my wife, by the way.

Tea was a moody drink.

Want and intelligence,' the historian had written, 'is a dangerous combination.

Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.

That's such an incredibly organic bias, the idea that your squishy physical existence is some sort of pinnacle that all programs aspire to.