Ya Fiction Quotes
Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.
The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible
A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.
With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.
She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.
She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.
As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.
Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.
It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.
You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!
Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk, when you could not even walk.
Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly
In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.
When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.
I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.
The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.
Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.
The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.
Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.
Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.
Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.~Pastor John Linton
To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.
Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ."— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet
Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of my face.
Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
