Ya Fiction Quotes

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

For chocolate's sake!

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

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.

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

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

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

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.

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.

So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

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

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.

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

You're stuck with me Skyguy-Ahsoka

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

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

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.

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

Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.”- EMW

Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

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.

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

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project

All I see is my father’s tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.Neo: What truth?Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.So, of course, it came out to meet him.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.

Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more than the sum of the skeletons in my closet. But I can be. And I am.

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light

We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good, " but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

Was he leaving home, or going home?

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity?

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.