Cytonic (The Skyward Series Book 3)

Sometimes it’s too easy to forget the things you should remember—and far too easy to remember the things you really should forget.”

“Jorgen!” I shouted. “Fly! You’re in the middle of a firefight, idiot!” “I’m trying! It’s a little distracting to have your ship suddenly be haunted by the ghost of your not-dead girlfriend!” He steered the ship in a precise evasive pattern. I melted a little. Girlfriend? Was that how he thought of me? I mean, we’d kissed. Once. But…I didn’t think

Then a scudding dinosaur came rampaging into camp—with a mustachioed human man riding on its back.

You cannot be defined by your questions. Only by what you do with them.”

Having the permission to stay had somehow given me the courage to leave.

“All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in that acceptance we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.”

“Technically,” M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, “the word ‘sentient’ just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, ‘sapience’ is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their lingu

“But…stories say something. About us, and about where we came from. They’re a reminder that we have a past, a history. And a future.”

“Wow,” M-Bot said. “You know emotions really well, Spensa. Particularly the stupid ones.” “I’ll take that as a compliment.” “So what do I do?” “Weather it,” I said. “Get better. Learn to accept that sometimes what you feel isn’t invalid, but that it doesn’t mean you have to act according to those feelings either.”