“They were made by Miss Lucy!”

“I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense.”

“He was interested in the sudden friendship between two women so apparently dissimilar as Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were always in each other's company, with Lucy a slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal unknown depths of strangeness, though not, perhaps, of meaning.”

“Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family.”

“There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!”

“They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and...They were in love.Sometimes that was enough.”