Цитаты из книги Проєкт «Аве Марія»

I drift off to sleep. It feels wrong to sleep without someone watching.

"You face is leaking."

"Human thing. Don't worry about it."

"Fist me!"

"It's 'fist-bump,' but yeah."

Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.

Human leak! Gross.

You sleep. I watch.

Adjust orbit while stupid. Good plan.

Human hands are better clamps than any tool I might have in the lab.

He doesn't like it, but he accepts that the universe uses rules that are much more complicated than we can see.

The faster you go, the less time you experience.

Ah, the c-word. "Culture." We have an unspoken agreement that cultural things just have to be accepted. It ends any minor dispute. "Do it my way because it's how I was raised," basically. We haven't run into anything where our cultures clash... yet.

I want to spend the rest of my life studying Eridian biology! But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.

I am happy. You no die. Let's save planets!

Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.

When the alternative is death to your entire species, things are very easy. No moral dilemmas, no weighing what's best for whom. Just a single-minded focus on getting this project working.

Remember, it took us a century of burning coal and oil on a global scale to even notice it was affecting the climate at all.

And just like that another climate denier is born. See how easy it is? All I have to do is tell you something you don't want to hear.

Who would have thought saving the world could be so boring?

Language is kind of an exponential system. The more words you know, the easier it is to describe new ones.

"No?" I ask

"No," he says in Eridian.

"So, 'yes'?"

"No, yes."

"Yes?"

"No. No."

"Yes, yes?"

"No!"