Ya Fiction Quotes
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.
We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.
Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?
Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.
Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future.
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....
I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.
This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.
... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.
As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor
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.
There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro
…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.
It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.
Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.
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.
What was I before the war? It’s hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of ancient souls Satellite empires, the oversight dark forces
So many people want to, they need to villainize others. They need a clear bad guy who suffers the consequences of violating their morality. But isn’t this the essence of intolerance?
Do you dream about time travel or do you time travel while you dream? #AzariasTor
Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!
Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.
And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.
A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines
Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.