Sci Fi Quotes

Death whispers your name to me.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

May the scribes record it.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. - Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance

~ A.z. Kelvin

We are gathered here to send our gratitude to Pinnacle Officer Wilcoxand FERTS, for our daily provision and protection from those who would seek to strike against our Vassals, our Fighters and our Internees.

~ Grace Hudson

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

~ A. Petrov

What you must remember is that the magic itself is neither good nor bad, no more so than this ship might be used for right or wrong. It might be used by a fisherman to feed a village, for example. Or, the same vessel might be sailed by pirates to murder and pillage...the lumber, rope, nails, cotton, and everything that goes into it-is created by the True One. Humans decide how it is to be put together and how it is used.

~ Derek Donais

I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.

~ Georgia Clark

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

~ K. Hari Kumar

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 man who'd used her and hurt her and probably would again, and yet who stayed, soothing her hair and not saying a word.

~ Mary Weber

Two Dutch, two Americans, one German and one Australian. And yet, as the rocket began to quake beneath us, my mind focused on a man in Antarctica. I thought about Sam Snowbow Archambeau waiting for the September sunrise to reach the South Pole. I smiled recalling him getting a haircut in a lawn chair next to the frozen barbershop pole. -- Nikki in the upcoming novel, Nikki White: Polar Extremes (Nikki, #3)

~ Jack Chaucer

He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.

~ Siobhan Davis

Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there’s only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.

~ Georgia Clark

There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.

~ Jerry J.c. Veit

The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

~ Jerry J.c. Veit

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.

~ Michael Grant

Love. Yes. That’s what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me unhappy. Your body makes me ache and you make me hard with need to be inside you. You are always on my mind and when I am not with you, I want you with me.

~ Laurann Dohner

I’ll miss you as well.” He glanced at her breasts. “So much.”She laughed. “Hurry back to me then.

~ Laurann Dohner

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

~ Michael Prelee

These guys we're meeting? They're dead. Saji has had things done to people who crossed him or whom he has perceived as crossing him. Ugly things. These guys we're meeting? They think they're tough. They run book, own strip clubs, dabble in petty theft and probably sell dope for all I know and they're comfortable in that world, thinking they own it. That arrogance? That feeling that they can just push people around and do anything they want? It has left them with one foot in the grave and they don't even know it.

~ Michael Prelee

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.They can get in line behind the police, the people whose cars we trashed, the Empire of Ob'enn, the Partnership Collective, and the Wormgate Corporation. Oh, and I think maybe some dark matter beasties from Andromeda.You think maybe?-General Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

~ Howard Tayler

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

~ Meagan Spooner

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.

~ Claudia Gray

A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

I write from the heart and do not edit and edit ... my works (music or writing). Although most writers do, and as I read their works its impossible for me to believe that they either talk or even think like that.

~ Alexzander Beck

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom.

~ Robert Leland Taylor

I told you stupid sons of bitches that this was going to happen!

~ John A. Autero

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

~ Carl Sagan

HARV, can you help at all here?” I asked, spinning downward.“I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it,” HARV told me.If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.

~ John Zakour

HARV appeared in front of me, arms crossed, head tilted. “You really should read your e-mails from Randy more carefully,” he lectured.“I skim them,” I protested.“Well, if you skimmed them more carefully you would know that prolonged exposure to stealth mode may lead to side effects.”“I can handle . . .”“Impotence.” HARV smiled.“Oh,” I said.“Randy hasn’t really tested it on humans. It’s extra tough to get volunteers for those types of experiments,” HARV said. “Though he has computer simulated it and the results tend to support this conclusion.”“Let’s try to limit our use of stealth mode from now on,” I said.

~ John Zakour

Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn’t come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.

~ John Zakour

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that bad (I have a strong heart), it’s the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.

~ John Zakour

Thing is, I am not a big fan of hovers. I firmly believe that if man was meant to fly we’d have feathers, rubber bones, or better insurance coverage.

~ John Zakour

So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

~ John Zakour

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state desire it.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

~ Frank Herbert

Are you sure you have enough sweetener in that? I could offer to conscript the rest of the cubes from the galley for you.

~ K.l. Tharp

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.-General Tagon & Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

~ Howard Tayler

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray

~ Monet Polny