Space Opera Quotes

“The world is coming to an end,' Samantha said factually. 'Today is the last time we’ll walk upon this terrestrial soil. What bother are bills, when Earth is to be decimated?”
― C.E. Stone, Starganauts

“What is that thing?' Matt asked. '...Is this object…alien?'
'Very much so,' Samantha remarked, half in wonder, half in sorrow. 'It is an alien gunship, manned by an alien crew but for one man—one person from Earth who was forsaken but has now returned to destroy his home.”
― C.E. Stone, Starganauts

“Acababa de dejar mi huella en el mundo”
― Juan Ignacio Quiroga, Conexiones resilientes

“Chrysta couldn’t speak for shock. She dared not hope. Life had trampled her dreams far too often for that.”
― C.E Stone

“Some would call me a defector,' he continued, 'and accuse me of switching sides. Can the parts of a man articulate the sum?'

-Starganauts: Defector”
― C.E Stone

“I could let go of the dead, but I couldn’t let go of the living.”
― Michael Mammay, Planetside

“In faith there is strength, Captain. A true strength, for it is not granted by others, nor the weight of your actions. It rises from within." - Penance”
― Michael T. Kuester, Wide Horizon

“Few are the things we might not attempt if success was assured. Yet these successes would be empty, for what could a thing be worth if nothing is ventured to obtain it?” - Declan March”
― Michael T. Kuester

“Few are the things we might not attempt if success was assured. Yet these successes would be empty, for what could a thing be worth if nothing is ventured to obtain it?”
― Michael T. Kuester, Wide Horizon

“... shown beneath the map of the galaxy - was an outrageous confection of a planet: a striped marshmallow giant with a necklace of sugary rings, combed and braided by the resonant forces of a dozen glazed and candied moons.”
― Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns

“Morrissey almost never passed out during sex. It was a trait he prided himself on, along with good hygiene and impeccable punctuality - both of which had
come in very handy over the past several hours.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“Morrissey was seven when he first suspected that the world didn't fit him quite right. Two sizes too big or two sizes too small, he couldn't be sure. All he knew was that planet Earth pinched him in all the wrong places.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“She pouted playfully, then walked slowly to the bedroom in the exquisite way that naked women tend to walk.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“Morrissey almost never passed out during sex. It was a trait he prided himself on, along with good hygiene and impeccable punctuality both of which had come in very handy over the past several hours.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“Morrissey almost never passed out during sex. It was a trait he prided himself on, along with good hygiene and impeccable punctuality - both of which had come in very handy over the past several hours.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“They would be coming for him soon. He didn't know who they were, of course, but there had to be a they. There was always a they.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“One might think that when the universe falls to pieces, chaos is inevitable: anarchy, barbarism, and madness would thrive, followed by the destruction of everything meaningful that sentience ever built. And although we know that this has been happening in certain places, something else entirely unexpected transpired as well. The surviving inhabitants of said universe adapted to the situation in a surprisingly swift manner.”
― Helyna L. Clove, Skylark in the Fog

“The moment the first missile crashed into the Skylark, Captain Jeane Blake realized she had gravely underestimated the danger they’d gotten themselves into.

The spaceship jolted, and a series of yellow warning messages flashed up on the screens. On the radar display, the markers showing the Lark and the Union vessel hot on its trail flickered in and out of existence in the interference, and the gravitational anomalies of the lane kept throwing both ships off-course. Their pursuer was gaining on them.”
― Helyna L. Clove, Skylark in the Fog

“Money makes people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. [BRAVE NEW MARS, Somerset Meece]”
― Somerset Meece, Brave New Mars

“..Perfection is what we strive for, it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist. (The Evolutionary Void)”
― Peter F. Hamilton

“Some say a person can accomplish anything she likes, if she applies herself, but that's just an empty platitude. You can't actually do 'anything', but if you apply yourselves, you will discover strengths that others don't have. You'll surprise people who don't expect it of you. And that is how you become powerful.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“Some say a person can accomplish anything she likes, if she applies herself, but that's just an empty platitude. You can't actually do 'anything', but if you apply yourselves, you will discover strengths that others don't have. You'll surprise people who don't expect it of you. And that is how you become powerful. (Sisterhood of Dune)”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“I would not pretend in front of you;
I would not be able to hide my feelings;
I'd try
But you'd figure it out”
― Jazalyn, Hollow: a Love Like a Life

“When it's done for money, all the love goes away. Brave New Mars, by Somerset Meece”
― 'Somerset' Meece, Brave New Mars

“When Money is God, Profit is the Prophet." By Somerset Meece, author of Brave New Mars.”
― 'Somerset' Meece, Brave New Mars

“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The atom made them all.”
― T. J. P. Campbell

“The Shadow said nothing. He merely stood, gazing at them in an unnerving manner.
“Curious,” he finally said. “For ones so talented, you know so little of this galaxy.”

- Starganauts, Defector”
― C.E Stone

“Fear. Terror. And piss. That was his story. Fuck the heroics; that was for the stories people wrote about it.”
― J Andrew Corbett, Simple Tricks and Nonsense

“Fear. Terror. And piss. That was his story. Fuck the heroics; that was for the stories people wrote about him.”
― J Andrew Corbett, Simple Tricks and Nonsense

“She could no more pick out the light of its death than pluck a particular molecule of salt from the ocean, but she knew it was there, and the fact was like a stone in her belly.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War