Scifi Quotes

That's how we should celebrate all birthdays... with an ass-kicking.

~ Mord Mcghee

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

~ Dan Brown

Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.

~ Brodi Ashton

Archie wasn't waiting for her at the attic. She didn't consider that. He wasprobably giving her time to set and collect a trap, about a week or so as she guessed, a testing period. He couldn't trust her just yet, but she could tell that there was also more to it. He needed to distance himself, from her, because he was afraid to love her. That was it. Loving her was his flaw, weakness, and he could not have a weakness, not while at war. He wouldn't show up, not for some time. She knew that. The longer it would take for him to come back, the more he loved her.

~ Perie Wolford

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.I don't even know what that is!Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

~ Girl Vs Monster

Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

May it be written. May it be done.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Death whispers your name to me.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

May the scribes record it.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.

~ Meinos Kaen

Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn't for race, X-Men doesn't sense. If it wasn't for the history of breeding human beings in the New World through chattel slavery, Dune doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn't make sense. If it wasn't for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of what we call science fiction’s contact stories doesn't make sense. Without us as the secret sauce, none of this works, and it is about time that we understood that we are the Force that holds the Star Wars universe together. We’re the Prime Directive that makes Star Trek possible, yeah. In the Green Lantern Corps, we are the oath. We are all of these things—erased, and yet without us—we are essential.

~ Junot Díaz

I tell you, mister, if there’s anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it’s knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they’re the same ones what get your own back up.

~ J.d. Jordan

Refusing to listen to him any longer, Julian backs up. “Whenever you realize working together is in Summer’s best interest, come find me, Boy Scout. Until then, I’ll just pretend you don’t exist.” Then he walks away.Gage glares at Julian’s retreating form. His hand scrapes through his hair as he fumes. A guttural roar of rage crawls up his throat, and he kicks the sand.Damn him and his stupid logic. He’s right. And Gage knows he’s right. But that doesn’t mean he has to like it.

~ Laura Kreitzer

There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.

~ Ray Bradbury

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve.

~ Philip K. Dick

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

~ Jessica Khoury

In the woods lay a bleeding angel in all her glory. Her arms posed gracefully above her head and her hair soaked in the mud, the blood and feces in which she lay. Dying, fading into the other realm, her form christened by the rain as though the trees had begun to weep upon her in sadness for the brutality she had endured. (The Children of Ankh series)

~ Kim Cormack

Be happy. Be free. You have a universe inside you.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.

~ Tom Stafford

Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. “Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.

~ Jeff Ferry

The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.That’s a wicked delusion.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him, or on a more terrifying note—if that’s even possible—maybe turn him into one of them. He’d rather die. But first, he’ll take as many of those bastards out as he can. He throws his pack into the throng and jerks the blade from his belt. With a thudding heart, he slices through them. Blood arcs over him, onto him.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Slowly, he lifts the flashlight. Her shorts are torn and frayed, her shirt ripped from chest to naval, exposing her black bra and dirty stomach. And then he raises the light so it reflects off her face, off the crimson tears streaming from the girl’s eyes. Her boney hands fly up to protect her face, and her head tilts sharply as she hisses.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.

~ Rick Yancey

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

You really need to trade in that End Days psychology, Stephanie, for some silver-lining thinking,” Jim said airily. “Not every second of every day is a friggin’ crisis. Besides, be careful what you wish for.” He paused to hand her a book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers. “Says here, the more psychic energy you invest in gloom and doom, the more likely you are to make it happen. The universe is very sensitive to these things, picks up on all those thought impressions, and the next thing you know, whack!” He smacked the back of his right hand against his left palm for emphasis.They rounded the hall, and the next thing Stephanie knew her head was being stuffed in a microwave. Microwave Man, one of the robots, provided the service. “Five seconds to a side, makes for an evenly cooked meal,” Microwave Man said. He waited five seconds, then turned Stephanie’s head. “Get me out of here! I feel my brains boiling!” Stephanie screamed frantically. But Jim, as strong as he was, was no match for Microwave Man. “He’s got ahold of your hair. I’ll run and get some scissors.”“I’ll be dead by then, you fool!”“What did I say about looking on the bright side, Stephanie?

~ Dean C. Moore

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

~ Kim Cormack

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

~ Jessica Khoury

I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

~ Daniel O'malley

SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.

~ Elaine Greywalker

The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every regard.

~ C.s. Friedman

And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough.

~ J.d. Jordan

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

~ J.d. Jordan

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don’t recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It’s none of their business. All they’re trying to do is tell you what they’re like, and what you’re like -- what’s going on -- what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don’t tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming another third of it spent in telling lies. [Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness]

~ Ursula K. Le Guin