Perhaps as surprising as the robot’s appearance is the utter nonchalance the population has displayed since.
-- Jacob Lawson via BBC news report (File No. 1398)

Importance: This comment demonstrates the way the EDC’s messaging has impacted the public’s perception of robots. Since the EDC has spent the last decade portraying Themis as a friendly protector of humanity, people associate this new alien robot with the same sentiment. However, this belief is false and potentially harmful because the people in London do not fear the unknown robot.

If there’s a ‘real’ Rose Franklin, chances are I’m not it.
-- Dr. Rose Franklin via personal journal entry (File No. 1399)

Importance: Rose struggles with her identity throughout the novel. She views her current self as false because the aliens brought her back to life using data from her body three years prior to her death. She feels that before she died and returned to life, she was a truer, more authentic version of herself.

I took away God’s...
-- Dr. Rose Franklin (File No. 1399)