Ya Fiction Quotes

We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are some factors which should be taken into account

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

Scent is like a kiss of time travel which transports one to an ancient memorable occasion.

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

I trade with you my mind.

Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world

Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

When you become big enough to wear this, they'll come for you. You'll probably be 17. It will be spring. Get on the ship. There, your ability will be needed. Then you'll be... free from solitude.

He didn’t want to talk about London’s wreck, and so he steered the conversation back towards Professor Pennyroyal’s favourite subject: Professor Pennyroyal.

The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.--from The Kif Strike Back

Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.

The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me

She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.

Sixty years ago the idea of everyone having a telephone in their pockets was science fiction. Our whole way of life is science fiction, if you look at it from the past.

No power in the 'verse can stop me!

Evil does not listen to reason.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

People write books because of injustices.

I feel like a china cup that broke and was put back together wrong.

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky.

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.

I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?

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

Don't needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you're twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal.

These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon!

Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow

Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

We were created to make the impossible possible.

They compose poems to their knives.