Ya Fiction Quotes

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

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.

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.

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

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.

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.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

You're stuck with me Skyguy-Ahsoka

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.

... wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.

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

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.”Touched by an Alien

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

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.

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

For chocolate's sake!

Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.

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.

I think they are a better race than humans ever were.

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.

Can't I just say it's magic? - Charlie Blue

This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost to love. -Nancy JanesNancy Janes

there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.

I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one.

If we know ourselves, and know our hearts, we're always home, anywhere.

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed...

I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Writing is exposing yourself to strangers

One day I will write a book. An epitaph