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“Youre insane.Itll work.Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.”
“You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.”
“If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.”
“Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.”
“Do you love me? His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fools chance at that”
“He did not have time to wallow, to give a moments thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.He had to ...”
“Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for stretch...”
“God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.”
“She didnt want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didnt want to be the vanguardof destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her ...”
“Wehumanitydidnt come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one h...”
“He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. Ill be damned.Possibly. But not today, I think.”
“His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance.He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were lo...”
“He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didnt dare trust them. The wound of betrayal still burned raw in his chest and another cut might b...”
“Youre covered in blood again.I really am. Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious? Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think.”
“She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other. No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.”
“His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and frustration all its own. To his dismay, she didnt fall. People so small as her always f...”
“The Artificials speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. I just have good instincts. Mostly I love being in space. But you are not in space....”
“So thats why I say never have anything you cant walk away from. Especially a woman. For them, because this is a dangerous life we lead and you never know if or when it will blow back on those close...”
“She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony in her heada song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and ast...”
“As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others.I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.”
“If her daughters ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And...”
“Blood drummed in her ears and adrenaline coursed through her veins, driving her to move. To act. Her hands trembled against his chest.Time vanished out from beneath her feet, one accelerating secon...”
