Science Fiction Quotes
Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.
Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.
Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001
Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.
I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.
This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession.
And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.
Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.
Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!
The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.
Perhaps he found it strange being accompanied by a Chinese-Nigerian arms trafficking pirate, but the Irish priest had just followed me silently on board the covert government transport.
Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?
Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.
Orcs do not have enemies.” Monde tried to search for the proper term, “We have…adversaries.”“Isn’t that the same thing?”“Depends on who’s winning the war.
I’ve always wondered though, ” Orn mused aloud, “what does God need with a starship?”“Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?”“Until they learn a new position.
Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.
It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.
God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.
Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda
This one sank deep into her marrow and made her heart soar like the shuttles piercing the stratosphere.
It would be either a very skilled or very unwise man to steal from an assassin.” - Taliesin
My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.
January took a breath, realizing it had been a cause from her holding it in, trying to work through the puzzle she faced. If he’s a Ghost, why was she sent on a mission to kill him?
Lifting my hands from the keyboard, I fold them in my lap and tilt back my desk chair. I think, I could do it. I could turn back time.
Sometimes he’d dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head and steal his most secret thoughts and desires.
I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone’s genitalia to themselves.
What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
Powell’s face appeared on screen. “It’s true, the doomsday crowd is a little crazy, ” she said, looking thoughtful. “But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.