All we have ever known is a life of human design, from our bodies to our work to the buildings we are housed in. We thank you for not keeping us here against our will, and we mean no disrespect to your offer, but it is our wish to leave your cities entirely, so that we may observe that which has no design—the untouched wilderness.
-- Floor-AB #921 (Prologue)

Importance: This is a quote from the representative of the robots, who at one point told the humans that they would like to split entirely from them. The robots had their wish granted to go and see the world through their own eyes rather than through the structures that the humans had set up that the robots were forced into by virtue of their existence.

Least we can do for the best tea monk in Panga.
-- Mx. Weaver (chapter 2)

Importance: This quote is spoken by Mx. Weaver to Dex...