22 quotes found
“What we don't know can't hurt us.”
“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”
“The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.”
“The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.”
“Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.”
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after anotherit's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
“You cant afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.”
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, Ive been grateful its here, too. I miss my wife. Its easier to miss her at a cemetery, where shes never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the place...”
“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”
“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.”
“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesnt cost you much to do it. Id rather apologize for something I didnt really care about, and leave someone on ...”
“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thou...”
“I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
“Colonization is the key to our races survival. Its as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.”
“Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).”
“She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.”
“Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.”
“Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I dont know, comfort. The sense youre where youre supposed to be, with someone youre supposed to be with.”
“I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I e...”
“You just know this is going to be bad," Susan said."but when I went to college," Harry continued, throwing a piece of bread at Susan, "if your roommate died, you were usually allowed to skip your f...”
