Space Opera Quotes
I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.
Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.
Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.
We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.
I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.
That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.
Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.
In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.
They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.
I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.
The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.
There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.
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 fool’s chance at that
War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?
I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.
All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me
There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae
How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.
Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.
It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001
Caleb!” The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt. He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldn’t breathe. “Alex, I can’t.
I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.
... But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.
You daughter is prudish?” There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter’s face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.
People feared what they did not understand, and they without a doubt did not understand her. Those who believed they did least of all. She was something new.
Noah gave an exaggerated eye roll. “Just out of curiosity, is this the stupidest thing you’ve ever done?”“It wouldn’t be fair to rank them.” Caleb gunned the engine.
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She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]
May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.
It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
It all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe planet goes around the sunIt all goes aroundMy mother said it all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe ship goes around the station
Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.
As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.
Don't go getting offended my friend, I have much worse things to say to you.-Ad'Dam, Journey from Atremes
Thing to know about the Reaches....It’s always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues
The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. “Jude Winslow, I presume.
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.
He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. “I’ll be damned.”“Possibly. But not today, I think.
If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.
You’re 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.
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.
You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.