Sci Quotes
What happened?""I f***ed Titan.""Ah.""Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?
The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy Bear
I can't explain my feelings for him...they're strange. But he says it is why we are so much alike, why I dream of him. He calls it The Craving.
Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah, the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler
It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.
By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.
In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.
... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.
Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.
Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip. “We don’t have five minutes.
Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.
I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.
You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.
I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.
You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.
BLUE, THE colour of the sky, of the ocean, of certain stars and planets and the hue of the bluest eyes you have ever seen.
I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.This desire will be my end.
It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
Into the darkness with the light of the moon beaming upon me. Bathing in the luminosity of it awakening the demon that is me!
It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte...If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.
Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.
Never forget that time is the most valuable thing we can spend, so don't throw it away!
I am, like you, travelling along a road of absolute uncertainty and chaos. The only truth is that one day, we will all reach the end.
I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.
Thing to know about the Reaches....It’s always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues
This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.
Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow
It’s called the Pyxis, ” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…
Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.
It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001
It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.
And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.
For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.
Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.
It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.