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The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is framling, Demosthenes merely drops the accent from the Nordic främling. This is the stranger we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is ramen, the stranger we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all animals, for with them no conversation is possible. They live, but we cannot guess what purposes or causes make them act. They might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it. -- Plikt, Reykjavik, Trondheim – Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card |
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The long line of fire smashed through the heart of the Universe, leaping from star to star. In a moment of time a thousand suns had died, feeding their energies to the monstrous shape that had torn along the axis of the Galaxy, and was now receding into the abyss. . . . . -- Callitrax, Grand Assembly Amphitheater, Diaspar, c. 1 Billion A.D. – The City and The Stars, Arthur C. Clarke |
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All love is unrequited, Stephen, all of it. -- Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5, December 2261 – Babylon 5 |
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If you can detect it, we can deflect it. If you can measure it, we can modulate it. -- Jeffrey Alan Horton, The Annex – The Trigger, A. C. Clarke and M. Kube-McDowell |
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The Uniques were our invention. They would appear at long intervals and would, if circumstances allowed them, discover if there was anything beyond Diaspar that was worth the effort of contacting. We never imagined that it would take so long for one of them to succeed-nor did we imagine that his success would be so great. -- “Yarlen Zey,” Callitrax, Airlee, Lys, c. 1 Billion A.D. – The City and The Stars, Arthur C. Clarke |
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear; / Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same, / And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black. / Oh, I kept the first for another day! / Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back. / I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence: / Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. -- “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost |
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A man said to the universe: / “Sir I exist!” / “However,” replied the universe, / “The fact has not created in me / A sense of obligation.” -- “A man said to the universe: (XXI)” – Stephen Crane |
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Watch the Moon, Malenfant. Watch the Moon! -- Emma Stoney, Airspace above Africa, Earth – Manifold: Origin, Stephen Baxter |
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Sullam nescisse litteras qui dictaturam deposuerit. -- Latin: “Sulla didn’t know his ABC’s when he gave up the dictatorship,” G. Julius Caesar |
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Put me on with him and give me firing control. This is the White Star fleet. Negative, on surrender. We will not stand down. – Who is this? Identify yourself. – Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth. I am death incarnate, and the last living thing you are ever going to see. God sent me. -- Conversation between Commander Susan Ivanova, White Star Fleet and Captain Jake Thompson, Advanced Destroyer Group, December 2261 – Babylon 5 |
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Man was about to leave his Universe, as long ago as he had left his world. And not only Man, but the thousand other races that had worked with him to make and Empire. They were gathered together, here at the edge of the Galaxy, with its whole thickness between them and the goal they would not reach for ages. -- Callitrax, Grand Assembly Amphitheater, Diaspar, c. 1 Billion A.D. – The City and The Stars, Arthur C. Clarke |
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We’re going to crash, and I have the Vice President on board. Vice President? Hell, we’re going to crash with me on board. -- Tom Wagner, Suborbital flight from L.A. to Washington, D.C., March 14, 2026 – Aftermath, Charles Sheffield |
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You can get great things done as long as you don’t have to get credit for it. -- Channing Blythe – Eater, Gregory Benford |
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Agencies despise uncertainties, old fellow, but we are scientists and know that knowledge is based upon doing experiments that can fail. -- Dr. Kingsley Dart – Eater, Gregory Benford |
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Not now. A freshly fucked male has no sense of danger. -- Lissa Cousins, August 10, Off of Interstate 5 in Imperial Valley, California – Vitals, Greg Bear |
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I am going where no one can follow, and where I shall escape whatever changes are now about to happen to Diaspar. Perhaps I am foolish to do this; that is something which only time can prove. I shall know the answer one day. -- Khedron, Message to Alvin, Diaspar, c. 1 Billion A.D. – The City and The Stars, Arthur C. Clarke |
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This is Ambassador Delenn of the Mimbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw... Or be destroyed. – Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship. – Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Mimbari fleet. He is behind me; you are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else. -- Ambassador Delenn, Onboard Mimbari Capital Ship, Babylon 5 Space, April 2260 – Babylon 5 |
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Spinner, that extra star is the sun. Our Sun, seen from Proxima. Another jump and Sol will be invisible, Spinner-of-Rope, yours are the last human eyes ever to look at sunlight. -- Louise Ye Armonk, Onboard the Great Northern, Proxima Centauri System, A.D. 5 Million – Ring, Stephen Baxter |
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I trust you can hear me Ku’Don. You understand that one day I will possess this species. All I must do is buy them. -- Zo’or, Leader of the Taelon Synod, Onboard the Taelon Mothership in Lunar Orbit – Earth: Final Conflict |
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That’s life. It hurts, it’s dirty, and it feels very, very good. -- Si Wang-mu – Children Of The Mind, Orson Scott Card |
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Once we had an empire. What have we now that they covet? -- Theon, Lys – Against The Fall Of The Night, Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford |
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God! What is wrong with you people? Don’t you have anything else better to do? Why don’t you get a hobby? Read a book or something? -- Vir Cotto, Babylon 5 – Babylon 5 |
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You, Man are no more than a very complex robot. I am simpler, but more efficient. That is all. -- The Engineer, Comarre – The Lion of Comarre, Arthur C. Clarke |
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I’m just depressed. I mean, I know what I was doing when I got on this ship, but damn, it’s really hard to get enthusiastic about working on these people’s language when I can count my life by the gauge on the oxygen tanks. -- Quara Ribeira, faster than light ship, In orbit of Descoladore’s Homeworld – Children Of The Mind, Orson Scott Card |
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Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes that says: “Hold my head to your ear and you will hear the sea.” -- Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, 2262 – Babylon 5 |
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I’m sure it’s a matter of perspective really, but for a Narn two minutes must be a long time, so if you go the duration it’s an accomplishment. But for the Centauri, hours can go by before you even get to the good parts. -- Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari to Narn Ambassador G’Kar, Babylon 5, December 2261 – Babylon 5 |
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Time, time is such a fleeting, insubstantial thing. As Shakespeare said, “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.” -- Andrew ‘Ender The Xenocide’ Wiggin, Lusitania Colony, Lusitania – Children Of The Mind, Orson Scott Card |
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It is so very HOT I do not know how to write it large enough. -- Emily Eden, “Up the Country” – The Art of Crossing Cultures, Craig Storti |
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Farewell and good fortune. Seek us by the light of the Horgon’s eye. -- The Monument Makers – The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt, |
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Remember them as they were; and write them off. -- Ernest Hemingway |
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Cosmos, Carl Sagan |
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Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) -- Descartes |
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Why didn’t the robots ever say “please”? -- Robert Peyton III, Comarre – The Lion of Comarre, Arthur C. Clarke |
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Most that are profound would choose to narrate tales of living men with nouns like sorrow, verbs like lose, and action scenes, and love – but then there are now some, and brave they be, that speak of Lunar cities raised and silver spheres and purple seas, leaving us who listen dazed. -- Irena Foygel, “S.M.U.D.G.E. Science Fiction War”, Boyer’s Coffee |
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It is said that the only Roman who appears in the history of mathematics is the one who slew Archimedes. |
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On the electron: “Not exist, not exist, why I can see the little beggars there in front of me as plainly as I can see that spoon.” -- Ernest Rutherford – Infinite in All Directions, Freeman J. Dyson |
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One nature rejoices in another. One nature destroys another. One nature masters another. -- Bolos of Mendes |
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I’m a soldier, znachit ya / I otvyetchik i sud’ya / Ya stoyu na dvukh kontsakh ognya / Ogibaya virazhi, obgonyaya smyert’ i zhizn’ / Ya byegu srazit’sya s tyen’yu lzhi / Skol’ko b nityey nye plyol obman / Pokazhyet lik svyeta istina / Save your tears / For the day / When our pain is far behind / On your feet / Come with me / We are soldiers stand or die / Save your fears / Take your place / Save them for the judgment day / Fast and free / Follow me / Time to make the sacrifice / We rise or fall / I’m a soldier, born to stand / In this waking hell I am / Witnessing more than I can compute / Pray myself we don’t forget / Lies, betrayed and the oppressed / Please give me the strength to be the truth / People facing the fire together / If we don’t, we’ll lose all we have found / Za myechtoyu nakray propasti / Lish’ tol’ko tak mozhno mir spasti / Ty nye plach’ / Slyozy spryach’ / Ved’ nastanyet novyy den’ / Tvoy ogon’ / Sogryevat’ / Budyet tysyachi syerdets / A syeychas podnimis’ / Spryach’ podal’shye bol’ i strakh / Pobyedit tot, kto prav / Znay, chto vsyo v tvoikh rukakh. -- Yoko Kanno & Origa, “Rise”, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Theme Song |
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When you kill, don’t say you’re going to do it. Just do it. And then say you’re sorry. |
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I don’t make suggestions, Mr. Baltar. If I want to toss a baby out an air lock I’d say so. -- President of the 12 Colonies of Kobol Laura Roslin, Admiral William “Bill” Adama’s quarters, Battlestar Galactica – Battlestar Galactica |
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After all, I’m not stupid, just evil. -- The Antichrist – “Work Ethic”, Come, Let Me Whisper, Russell L. Burt |
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Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting and singing and mucking about with old half-remembered lines of bad poetry. And you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing. -- Brother Cavil to Chief Galen Tyrol – Battlestar Galactica |
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That’s life. It hurts, it’s dirty, and it feels very, very good. -- Si Wang-mu – Children Of The Mind, Orson Scott Card |
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The past is another country. -- The Doctor, Jordan Road, November 7, 1987 – “Father’s Day”, Doctor Who |
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Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. -- Seneca |
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Spinner, that extra star is the sun. Our Sun, seen from Proxima. Another jump and Sol will be invisible, Spinner-of-Rope, yours are the last human eyes ever to look at sunlight. -- Louise Ye Armonk, Onboard the Great Northern, Proxima Centauri System, Circa A.D. 5 Million – Ring, Stephen Baxter |
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Being soul-called by a demon is bad enough without the embarrassment of finding that you identify deeply with the name “Red Five” or “Rabbit West.” -- “The Team-Mate Reference Problem in Final-Stage Demon Confrontation”, Constance Cooper |
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<I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act.> -- Human, Lusitania – Xenocide, Orson Scott Card |
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Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. -- Seneca |
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We cannot help but interact with History, you and I. With every breath we take, every tree you cut down, every animal we kill, we create a new world in the Multiplicity of Worlds. That is all. It is unavoidable. -- Nebogipfel, England, Palaeocene Era (c. 50,000,000 B.C.E.) – The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter |
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You better be sure about this, Doctor, because if you make me disappear there won’t be a dimension safe enough for you. -- General Hank Landry, Addressing Dr. William “Bill” Lee, Dr. William “Bill” Lee’s Lab, Stargate Command, Under Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado – Stargate SG-1 |
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When you kill, don’t say you’re going to do it. Just do it. And then say you’re sorry. |
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And time exerted its power. We are fleeting creatures, we humans! -- Reath, c. A.D. 500,000 – Transcendent, Stephen Baxter |
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Oh, come on. It was just a theory. Anyway, if I’d been right you’d all be calling me a genius right now. / Yes, but you weren’t right. -- Dr. William “Bill” Lee & Dr. Daniel Jackson, Dr. William “Bill” Lee’s Lab, Stargate Command, Under Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado – Stargate SG-1 |
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Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting and singing and mucking about with old half-remembered lines of bad poetry. And you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing. -- Brother Cavil to Chief Galen Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica – Battlestar Galactica |
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I know it’s hard to believe right now, but if you have faith, everything will turn out exactly as it should. / I don’t like to lose. / Have faith. / I’m about to face public humiliation. And you are singing the same old song. I’m a little tired of the melody. -- Number 6 and Vice President of the 12 Colonies of Kobol Dr. Gaius Baltar, Dr. Gaius Baltar’s Lab, Battlestar Galactica, Before the first Presidential debate – Battlestar Galactica |
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But our brains are hardwired for a world with a mere three dimensions, so we can go no further than problems with a handful of variables, because we can’t visualize the solutions. And that’s our fundamental intellectual limit. Gea can see the qualitative content of an equation: she sees the babbling brook in the equations of fluid mechanics, the rainbow in the formulae of electromagnetism. We just can’t do it. -- Dr. Vander Guthrie, Outside the “Global Ecosystems Analyzer,” Center for Climatic Modeling, The University of Oklahoma, A.D. 2047 – Transcendent, Stephen Baxter |
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There probably is no point in living. But by continuing to live, you may be able to find some interesting things. -- Orochimaru to Kinimaro, Outside the Hidden Village in the Mist – Naruto Episode 126 |
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Give me ideas, stories, music. Forget booze and diamonds, forget women. Pages filled with printed words and grooves in vinyl are a guy’s best friend. -- Phil Richards, Advice to Peter Russell – Dead Lines, Greg Bear |
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| I mean, we’re all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out sometime when we’re still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we’re immortal for more than a decade afterward. -- Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, October 29 – Dead Beat, Jim Butcher | |
| March 2008 | President Baltar, I offer my sincere congratulations. I say that knowing we’ve had our differences and that you take office despite my many reservations. You may be the most brilliant person I’ve ever met, but your intelligence is unleavened by compassion. You must be reminded of your ethical responsibilities and challenged to rise above your own selfish needs. I don’t write this to hurt you, but to beg you to open your heart. Understand that the people in the fleet look to you not only for leadership but for solace. Justice. Find a way to give them that, and you will be a great leader. Laura Roslin -- Succession letter from President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol Laura Roslin to Vice President Gaius Baltar, Baltar’s Lab, Battlestar Galactica – “Epiphanies,” Battlestar Galactica |
| April 2008 | Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they’re the cheapest color at Wal-Mart. Hey, being a wizard doesn’t make money grow on trees. -- Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, The Lab, Chicago – Grave Peril, Jim Butcher |
| May 2008 | People vote their hopes, not their fears, Madam President. -- Tory Foster to President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol Laura Roslin, Colonial One – Battlestar Galactica |
| June 2008 | In the past we humans, struggling to comprehend our place in the universe, imagined gods, and venerated them. But now we have looked across the width of the universe, and from its beginning to its end. And we know there are no gods. We are the creators of the future. And the only entities worthy of our veneration are our own descendants, who, thanks to our selfless striving, will occupy the gods’ empty thrones. But we have a Galaxy to win first. -- The Doctrines of Hama Druz, 5408 C.E., Year Zero of the Third Expansion of Mankind – Exultant, Stephen Baxter |
| July 2008 | Hail and farewell, fellow Traveler. The great dark is too great, and the night too deep. We will never meet, you and I. Let me pause therefore, and raise a glass. -- Menakhat, Quoted by Richard Wald, Amity Island, Maine, Friday, May 7 2202, 2000 hours – The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt |
| August 2008 | <I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act.> -- Human, Lusitania – Xenocide, Orson Scott Card |
| September 2008 | Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. -- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 |
| October 2008 | Besides that, in the circles of the supernatural community, an Old World code of conduct still ruled. When you have a problem, you settle it face to face, within the circle. You don’t bring in the cops and the other mortals as weapons. They’re the nuclear missiles of the supernatural world. If you show people a supernatural brawl going on, it’s going to scare the snot out of them and the next thing you know, they’re burning everything and everyone in sight. Most people wouldn’t care that one scary guy might have been right and the other was wrong. Both guys are scary, so you ace both of them and sleep better at night. -- Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Outside Mickey Malone’s home, Chicago – Grave Peril, Jim Butcher |
| November 2008 | I am a galley slave to pen and ink. -- Honore de Balzac |
| December 2008 | We fondly imagine that evolution drives toward higher intelligence. But eagles would think evolution favored flight, elephants would naturally prefer the importance of great strength, sharks would feel that swimming was the ultimate desirable trait, and eminent Victorians would be quite convinced that evolution preferred Victorians. -- Dr. Kingsley Dart – Eater, Gregory Benford |
| What? I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when there’s no one left who cares what befalls them. Of the entire earth being rained on by all manner of demons bent on ultimate torture and sacrifice. Them ripping and shredding human flesh as they claw in a drunken frenzy fueled by their hatred of everything. Drinking blood in an orgy of terror ... ahhh, the beauty of annihilation. There’s nothing like it. -- Apollymi to Katra, Kalosis – Devil May Cry, Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| YOUR LIFETIME COMPRISES A TRILLION OF YOUR BRAIN EVENTS. YOU ARE AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS OF MOLECULES AND SO COMPRISE A TRANSIENT MEDIUM. CAUGHT IN YOUR SMALL BOX OF TIME, YOU CANNOT ATTAIN THE HEIGHTS OF SOME FORMS I HAVE WITNESSED. -- Eater of All Things – Eater, Gregory Benford | |
| March 2009 | Well, I am half demon, darling; you have to expect the odd moment of heartlessness. -- Bettie Divine, The Pink Cockatoo, The Nightside – The Unnatural Inquirer, Simon R. Green |
| April 2009 | But you’ll only live a few more years. You’ve no idea what eternity feels like. Time has no meaning. It merely stretches out and hangs on ever the same. -- Artemis, Temple of Artemis, Mt. Olympus, December 13, 9529 B.C. – Acheron, Sherrilyn Kenyon |
| May 2009 | What is it, Davy? Is real rejection worse than your imagined rejection? As long as you don’t write, you can pretend that she’d want to see you if she heard from you. Is that it? -- Millie Harrison, Phone call from Stillwater, OK to New York City, 11:30 PM – Jumper, Steven Gould |
| June 2009 | The second he was out, he was going to go to Jane’s house and pull some romantic shit. He wasn’t sure what, maybe like flowers or something. Well, flowers and him installing that security system. ’Cause nothing said lovin’ like a shitload of motion detectors. -- Vishous, Son of the Bloodletter, Kitchen, The Tomb Mansion – Lover Unbound, J. R. Ward |
| July 2009 | Well, I am half demon, darling; you have to expect the odd moment of heartlessness. -- Bettie Divine, The Pink Cockatoo, The Nightside – The Unnatural Inquirer, Simon R. Green |
| August 2009 | And so it begins… -- Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5 – Babylon 5 |
| September 2009 | I AM ONLY ME SELF ALONE. A COMPOSITION OF FIELDS. -- Eater of All Things – Eater, Gregory Benford |
| October 2009 | Almost since the time of Michael Poole, there had been undying among the ranks of mankind. Some were engineered to be so, by humans or even by nonhumans, and others were the children of the engineered. Of course none of these were truly “immortal”; it was just that they couldn’t foresee a time when they would die. They emerged and died in their own slow generations, a subset of mankind who counted their lives in tens of millennia or more. – Transcendent, Stephen Baxter |
| November 2009 | And, constantly remembered, the memories that defined her need not die with her–and so she need not die, not ever. She had no need of Reath’s “immortality pill”; in this chill, remembered sense, she was already an undying. -- Alia, Circa A.D. 500,000 – Transcendent, Stephen Baxter |
| December 2009 | That’s how I see the universe. Every waking second, I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That’s the burden of a Time Lord, Donna. And I’m the only one left. -- The Doctor, Pompeii, August 24, 79 A.D. – “The Fires of Pompeii”, Doctor Who |
| But there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It’s taken me all these years to realise the laws of time are mine! And they will obey me! -- The Doctor, Bowie Base One, Mars, November 21, 2059 – “The Waters of Mars”, Doctor Who | |
| I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to – I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly because I have to – I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I’m a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I’m trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way! -- Number One (Brother John Cavil), Baseship – “No Exit”, Battlestar Galactica | |
| March 2010 | King was spelled c-a-r-t-e b-l-a-n-c-h-e in the vampire world. -- Qhuinn, Son of Lohstrong, The Tomb Mansion – Lover Enshrined, J. R. Ward |
| April 2010 | Aum bhoor bhuwah swaha, / Tat savitur varenyam / Bhargo devasaya dheemahi / Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat – Battlestar Galactica |
| May 2010 | To really be free, you need to be free in the mind. -- Alexander Loutsis |
| June 2010 | We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. -- G’Kar – “Objects in Motion”, Babylon 5 |
| July 2010 | The future reveals itself only reluctantly, Ambassador. Take the sign for what it is. Look for it when it appears! -- Lady Morella, Babylon 5 – “Point of No Return”, Babylon 5 |
| August 2010 | The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek – “Believers”, Babylon 5 |
| September 2010 | I have no convictions, as they are understood by the men of my century, because I have no ambition… However, I have some convictions, in a nobler sense, which cannot be understood by the men of my time. -- Charles Pierre Baudelaire |
| October 2010 | All I hear is that voice, you know telling us to kill all our friends before they have a chance to kill us. -- Private Michael J. Caboose, Outside Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 24: Sweet Ride”, Red vs. Blue |
| November 2010 | All life is transitory. A dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don’t see you again here, I will see you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall. -- Minbari Ambassador Delenn, Captain John J. Sheridan’s Quarters – “Confessions and Lamentations”, Babylon 5 |
| December 2010 | It’s one of life’s great mysteries isn’t it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don’t know, man. But it keeps me up at night. -- Private Dexter Grif, Atop Blood Gulch Outpost Number One – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 1: Why Are We Here?”, Red vs. Blue |
| The future is always changing. We create the future with our words, our deeds, and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, and it is my hope that you may yet avoid it. -- Lady Ladira, Babylon 5 – “Signs and Portents”, Babylon 5 | |
| Time... line? Time isn’t made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. -- Private Michael J. Caboose, Zanzibar – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 53: Let's Come to Order”, Red vs. Blue | |
| March 2011 | You know? I can honestly say I have no idea what I just saw. Can I quit the army now? Seriously, I think I’ve seen everything I need to see at this point. -- Private Dexter Grif, Zanzibar – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 55: Defusing the Situation”, Red vs. Blue |
| April 2011 | Oh, I see. You have no idea what I should do or how I should do it but what I do I should do it fast? -- Private First Class Lavernius Tucker, Blood Gulch – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 31: Room For Rent”, Red vs. Blue |
| May 2011 | All I hear is that voice, you know telling us to kill all our friends before they have a chance to kill us. -- Private Michael J. Caboose, Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 24: Sweet Ride”, Red vs. Blue |
| June 2011 | You are what you dare. -- The Didact – Halo: Cryptum, Greg Bear |
| July 2011 | “Try shifting your paradigm. Think outside the box.” “Hey, the box is there for a reason. I like thinking inside of it. I feel safe in there.” -- Private Leonard L. Church & Private First Class Lavernius Tucker, Blood Gulch – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 31: Room For Rent”, Red vs. Blue |
| August 2011 | Okay. We all agree, that while the current situation, is not totally ironic, the fact that we now have to work together, is odd in an unexpected way, that defies our normal circumstances. Is everybody happy with that… -- Private Leonard L. Church, Blood Gulch – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 38: K.I.T. B.F.F.”, Red vs. Blue |
| September 2011 | That’s the thing about science fiction tropes, is that if you designed the real world like you designed a science fiction environment, your keyboard would make all kind of weird noises when you touched it and it would light up and you would go quietly insane over a period of time. -- J. Michael Straczynski, “Babylon 5: The Gathering:” Special Edition Commentary Track |
| October 2011 | No, scheming looks different. That’s definitely plotting. They’re gonna try something. -- Freelancer Agent Texas “Tex” (Allison), Zanzibar – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 54: Hello, My Name is Andrew”, Red vs. Blue |
| November 2011 | The DMR is the best all-purpose weapon at our disposal. It fires powerful rounds with pinpoint accuracy. You want that DMR. You can’t fight without it. You NEED that DMR. Say you need it. Now go get that DMR! -- Warren, Forge World – “Up in the Sky”, Playtime |
| December 2011 | Why would I be afraid of someone from the past? People from the future are scary. People from the past are savages and idiots. -- Private Richard “Dick” Simmons, Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha – “The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Episode 68: Getting All Misty”, Red vs. Blue |
| What the hell? It bounces!? Who designs a gun that bounces? This is the worst gun ever. Of all… -- Freelancer Agent Washington (David) – “Season 9: The Sarcophagus”, Red vs. Blue | |
| If you’re going to be worried every time the universe doesn’t make sense, you’re going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your natural life. -- Narn Ambassador G’Kar, Babylon 5, December 2261 – Babylon 5 | |
| March 2012 | Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody. -- Adrian “Shel” Shelbourne, Moorland Avenue, Burlington, NJ, Monday, October 15, 2019 – Time Travelers Never Die, Jack McDevitt |
| April 2012 | Go back to Aaron Morris’s Homepage |
| May 2012 | Come back next month (hopefully). |
| June 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| July 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| August 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| September 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| October 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| November 2012 | Come back in the future. |
| December 2012 | Come back in the future. |
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