“The room was a small square of hopelessness.
A flash of red. And then:
Dimensions: 10 ft. by 9 ft.
I swallowed a horrific giggle. Perfect. And now I knew the exact measurements of hopelessness.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“No matter what. I wouldn't let anyone change me. I wouldn't let them strip away whatever tiny parts of me were human. Assuming I had any humanity to lose.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“No matter
how big my attempts to hide from my true nature, it still existed. I was a machine,and a powerful one.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“There’s nothing wrong with
being an android”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“But I couldn’t block out the memories, false or not. Couldn’t block out the internal pain I shouldn’t even be able to feel. Couldn’t keep those annoying phony tears that felt so, so real from flowing.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“I know you worry that you experience the world differently than regular people. But.. No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best... The best... The best we can ever do is try.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“Mom wanted me to fight.
To live.
I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“The only person I could trust
was Mom.
Mom . Who I’d never see again
unless I
aced these tests. And all I had to do was
be a good little an droid. Strong .
Focused.
Emotion free.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“No matter what they said, I was alive. I had to be. At least in part. Because that once clear though screaming through me right now was: I don't want to die.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
“Because despite the undeniable knowledge that I wasn't human—or mostly human, anyway—despite the proof the computer screen had show in the repair room, I still picture my interior just the same as any other sixteen-year-old girl's. Blood and guts and bones. A brain, and a functioning heart. Hopes and dreams, fears and sorrow. They could tell me the truth, but they couldn't force me to accept it.”
― Debra Driza, quote from MILA 2.0
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“What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such.”
― Immanuel Kant, quote from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“It was fucking weird. They had gone from a sickening, "in love" couple doing a duet to the complete opposite in the span of two songs. Who knew the Beatles were still so controversial.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Lying Season
“I'd really like to write. Just write, whether it's for magazines or books, whatever. Not necessarily deep and meaningful, but just something that someone can enjoy.”
― Lindsey Kelk, quote from I Heart New York
“The thing I like most about time is that it’s not real. It’s all in the head. Sure, it’s a useful trick if you wanna meet someone at a specific place in the universe to have tea or coffee. But that’s all it is, a trick. There’s no such thing as the past, it exists only in the memory. There’s no such thing as the future, it exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.”
― Damien Echols, quote from Life After Death
“In the 1920s, he decided that it was cheaper to drill for oil than to buy the overvalued shares of other oil companies. After the 1929 stock market crash, he completely changed tack; he saw that oil shares were selling at a great discount to assets, and he turned to prospecting for oil on the floor of the stock exchange—in”
― Daniel Yergin, quote from The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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