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Quotes

This is where the autism is kept...

...Time, Dr. Free Rat?
Is it really that time again?

No thoughts, head full of rocks (that I accidently swallowed)...

Most iterators have skeletons in their closet, I have slugs.

I have no idle scripts, and yet I am still speaking. Please do not call the police!
-Jazztronauts, The Singer

I'm hurtin', Gordon!
I need to get patched up.
-Half Life 2, Barney Calhoun

Good job, Gordon.
Throwing that switch and all,
I can see your MIT education really pays for itself.
-Half Life 2, Barney Calhoun

Hello, and again, welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-aided enrichment center.
-Portal, GlaDOS

Federal regulations require me to warn you that this next test chamber... Is looking pretty good.
-Portal, GlaDOS

Enjoy this next test.
I'm going to go to the surface, it's a beautiful day out.
Yesterday I saw a deer.
If you solve this next test, maybe I'll let you ride an elevator all the way to the break room,
and I'll tell you about the time I saw a deer again.
-Portal 2, GlaDOS

So much space. Need to see it all.

Lady. I love space. I know! Spell it! S... P... aACE. Space! Space.

-Portal 2, Space Core

Yes, help yourself. They are not edible.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles

You're stuck in a cycle, a repeating pattern. You want a way out.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles

During previous interactions, I have been awarded no other response than a blank stare.
Yet you apparently have sufficient ability for communication to circulate complex instructions
on how to enter this chamber among each other.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles

...Always that same blank expression...
-Rain World, Five Pebbles

...It's a rock. Thank you, I suppose, little creature.
-Rain World, Looks to the Moon

So down into the depths you go as many others before you,
drawn to the void again and again, an endless drip drip drip.
-Rain World, Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets

Does that seem familiar? Yes, it is quite amusing for a being in my predicament!
-Rain World, Droplets upon Five Large Droplets

Was it all to find me, young one, or did the idea of such a journey itself spark the fire within you?
-Rain World, Eight Spots on a Blind Eye

Songs

Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same empty answers again?
-The National, Exile Vilify

I tell my love to wreck it all / Cut out all the ropes and let me fall...
-Bon Iver, Skinny Love

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high...
-Kansas, Carry on my Wayward Son

Would you come here and spin with me?
I've been dying to get you dizzy
Find a way up into your head
So I can make you feel like new again
-Turnover, Dizzy on the Comedown

We were tight-knit boys, brothers in more than name
You would kill for me, and knew that I'd do the same
-Radical Face, Always Gold

I suppose it's just interest,
Do-mi-so-do...
Devoid of substance, a hypothetical pattern,
Do-mi-so-ti...
For the satisfaction of bringing it to completion!
-Steven Universe, Peace and Love on the Planet Earth

Mystery of lack
Stabbing stars through my back
Forwards, beckon, rebound
Forwards, beckon, rebound
-Adrianne Lenker, forwards beckon rebound

Illustration of the slugcat Gourmand walking and carrying food.