“Well,” he said, “you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now.” “It occurs to me that I might be an… — Ian Tregillis
“Well,” he said, “you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now.”
“It occurs to me that I might be an underappreciated genius.” She paused to clutch the mast again during a particularly hard gust. “But I’ll tell you something. It’s not so wonderful, learning you were right all along to suspect the world is conspiring against you.”
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The grotesque machine reassembled its head. The medical servitor stood, emitted a burst of ticktock cog chatter, then flung itself into the massacre with the fervor of a religious zealot.
“What the hell was that?”
“That was a close call wrapped in some very unpleasant philosophical questions.”
I am a pragmatist, said Mab. I do what must be done to make a better world.
“Oh, I’m sure you tell yourself that. But so does the woman who tortured Lilith. You sound exactly like her, in fact. The difference is that Berenice actually means it. She doesn’t use the pretense to justify her cruelty.”
