Ya Fiction Quotes
I think you have bits of Primord in your hair...And you look …bloody...You look a mess, Halíka...But you are still the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on.
You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.
Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.
Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.”- EMW
Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.
If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.
There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.
If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)
So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)
I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch
We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.
A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki
Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.
In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.
Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.
Stability, ” insisted the Controller, “stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.
She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.
I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.
Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.
There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia, " said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.
My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.
The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.
I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.
