Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stunning, fearsome frequency. As David's family had done to him; as David had done to her. And Ada would do it too. She would fail other people throughout her life, inevitably, even those she loved best. Liz Moore
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  1. As a parting gift, he gave Harold the key chain from his house keys, the ones that opened the gate to Hamilton Arms: it was a clover, a charm for luck. Its stem was a little drawer, into which, Harold later found, George had put...

  2. If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity–can persuade a human being of its kinship–then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

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  4. ...the pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...

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