vN Quotes

“She belongs with me, not to me.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell, as though she were watching him decay one picosecond at a time”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“It always takes Ignacio a minute to put his sexy together.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“It wasn't a hug - hugs ended quickly, even long ones, but this one persisted into something else entirely.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“She looked up and he was looking at her, too, and it was like kissing - or perhaps the moment just before kissing, or maybe a long time after.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“It's us, you know, it's us who can't handle that kind of love. We're apes. Literally. We don't know shit about unconditional love. So we fight it, because on some level we don't even believe it's possible.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“There are only two industries in this world that ever make any kind of progress: porn, and the military. And when they hop in bed together with crazy fundamentalists, we get things like you.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“An iteration isn’t a copy, Mother. It’s just the latest version. I’m your upgrade. That’s why I did what I did. Because I’m just better than you.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“They made us this way. They built in a flaw that makes us turn on each other before we will ever turn on them.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“My mother?" Portia asks. "Let me tell you about my mother.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“The last one was really into God. A lot of gods, actually. He was pursuing a degree in divinity, whatever that meant. He started out all Good Samaritan and ended up leaving little pillars of salt on everything.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the moment when the wise old wizard tells you that you were a magical princess all along, Amy thought.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN