Ya Science Fiction Quotes

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

Later, " Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.

Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.

. . . hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with “a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar….

Dying was never as hard as having to live again.

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.

He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.

I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.

We're looking for quantum donuts, " said Mike.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

I’ve always wondered about your name, ” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.

Life gives only the canvas, but it is you, who chooses the colors.

The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it, ” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve concluded that I don’t want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.

The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel

Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

You happened to me, " she told him, her voice more fatigued than embittered. "You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life." - Mara Jade

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings

I know something about a lot of things, " she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

I wouldn’t change a thing. I want you. I’ll always want you.

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.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

It is important to continue working toward creating the archetype of the self-rescuing princess, empowering girls through depictions of women in STEM.

Everything I do nowWas once an unremembered dream.-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.--from The Kif Strike Back

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

Scent is like a kiss of time travel which transports one to an ancient memorable occasion.

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

I trade with you my mind.

Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world

Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

When you become big enough to wear this, they'll come for you. You'll probably be 17. It will be spring. Get on the ship. There, your ability will be needed. Then you'll be... free from solitude.

He didn’t want to talk about London’s wreck, and so he steered the conversation back towards Professor Pennyroyal’s favourite subject: Professor Pennyroyal.

The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

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.

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

He’s going to kill everyone on this planet, reduce the human race to dust. There will be no one to stop him. You are the only one who can. - Aiden Deverill

I'm not trying to be mean, ' Casamir says.'Intent doesn't always matter.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?