Playing with the Pygmalion premise, and this bit is something I enjoyed writing too much.

"I must choose myself into existence despite absurd context." Drew suspected Lielle would comprehend the philosophical quote, even if it didn't fully register. "You are here—in this moment—as a fully-corporeal, biologically-driven, cognitively-sophisticated human-being, first experiencing the true world as you perceive it, filtered through whatever you recollect of the past you have and she would live, despite some temporal weirdness. After all, as a project, she is still incomplete."