104 quotes found
“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear ...”
“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yo...”
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
“Thing to know about the Reaches....Its always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues”
“Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow”
“Why? Why did you kill them?He laughed, recognizing it bore a frightening coldness. Because you walked through the wrong door, and they paid you to do it. You will be a testament to the terror that ...”
“Dont talk. Dont sputter out a solitary protest or it will be your last. Take me to them.Who the f**k are you?He palmed the mans forehead and slammed his skull against the wall. I said dont talk, an...”
“It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.”
“Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.Only one g...”
“Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane he was soon gone.”
“The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.”
“Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project”
“Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).”
“Science is about the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.7 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).”
“Sofi had no idea how long she sat like that. Tucked up beside this boy she despised more than anyone other than her mother while his music overwhelmed her senses and set them all right again. This ...”
“This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the "Adam Project.”
“I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.”
“You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.”
“I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.”
“I told you stupid sons of bitches that this was going to happen!”
