“Design is body language for inanimate objects.”
“Never fight an inanimate object.”
“I'm asexual, though occasionally I'm attracted to inanimate objects. Mainly tube-shaped objects.”
“[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.”
“Read people by their surroundings, their personally designed environments. Like external body language, a room and how its arranged tells you things without speaking.”
“Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”