How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Pris had now cut three legs from the spider, which crept about miserably on the kitchen table, seeking a way out, a path to freedom. It found none. (18.45)
The novel takes a common form of violence (well, we hope not that common… ) and makes it horrifying. Reading about Pris torturing the poor spider is really terrible. Yet violence to creatures as small as spiders, bugs, and ants is commonplace in our world, so much so we rarely pay attention to it. (Although, seriously, if you're going to kill a bug, just do it quickly and get it over with. No need to torture it.)
Quote #8
[Rick] shot Roy Baty; the big man's corpse lashed about, toppled like an overstacked collection of separate, brittle entities; it smashed into the kitchen table and carried dishes and flatware down with it. Reflex circuits in the corpse made it twitch and flutter, but it had died; […]. (19.44)
Rick guns down Roy Baty, but his view of this android's death is a little more vivid, a little more detailed than Polokov's. Instead of "brain box"—the way he describes the first android he kills—Rick sees the 'droid as a "corpse." And that's a pretty human word.
Quote #9
"And she made no effort to keep us from seeing her. As if she didn't care."
"No, she didn't care," he said. "Rachael wouldn't give a damn if you saw her; she probably wanted you to, so I'd know who had done it." (20.17-18)
Rachael wants to hurt Rick for what's he's done—violently. Sounds like Dick agrees with Martin Luther King Jr., who said that violence begets violence (source).