“Halt! We are attempting an arrest!Yeah, were aware, Quinn muttered under her breath.”

“Alright. So how are we getting down there? Can you turn invisible or something?What do I look like? A magician?Well, can you fight?Can you?No, said Thalcu with a sad laugh. Zonbiri women arent allo...”

“But what do you care about Qorlec? went on Dr. Zorgone. I heard you escaped Alsa Sif V, and immediately upon your departure, he frowned, you set coordinates for Earth? He laughed softly, nastily, a...”

“Varzo looked with shame at her boots. Look, I wasnt serious, alright? It was just a thought.Mercy shook her head. Shitty thoughts become shitty actions, kid. You really gone your entire life withou...”

“Zita shrugged. I wouldnt hold it against ya, kid. Youre asking if you should choose war or love. Hate is easy, everybody does it. But most people go their entire lives without really loving. Mioras...”

“Quinn dropped her hand and avoided Thalcus eye. I . . . I dont want to kill you, she said to the floor. Not if I could save you.The woman smiled gently at Quinn, her lips curling behind her oxygen ...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

“I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the cove...”

“I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in p...”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”