Kevin Emerson > Quotes

“History is always written to serve the powerful.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“On the list of things that are the worst about life, missing chances will always be number one.”
― Kevin Emerson, Carlos Is Gonna Get It

“And maybe that's the secret: Maybe we do go in circles, but they're orbits, created by the gravity of our hearts and hopes, and so if we stay true to ourselves, we will face the same situations again, but each time we come around, we know more, we've grown, learned, and this time we can get it right, or at least a little better.”
― Kevin Emerson, Exile

“The night felt like it had gone by so fast, yet every second of it was bright and burned into my mind, and I felt sure I would never forget any of it, almost like I'd left some part of me back there on that island, a piece carved out that wouldn't travel into whatever came next. It would just stay behind, living that night over and over.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“That's the point of words. They get around.”
― Kevin Emerson, Exile

“I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just do something without having to worry about whether it's right. Now, don't worry, I can usually overcome it.”
― Kevin Emerson, Carlos Is Gonna Get It

“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the fun of reading a good story like the evil English army of Discuss, Analyze, and that hideous duo Compare and Contrast.”
― Kevin Emerson, Carlos Is Gonna Get It

“Time passed, unknowable amounts and I had no sense for it. There was just the blanket and grass, the cold of rain and the heat of Lilly like a small sun beside me, and we lay there until the clouds left and the SimStars reappeared.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?”
― Kevin Emerson, Exile

“A hand closed over my wrist. I looked over, and there was Lilly, cast in moonlight and blue, hair snaking around her, a siren calling to me: 'come on.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“Beware the gods and their horrors.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Dark Shore

“Shut up, butcher," snapped Aliah. 'We know what you are.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Lost Code

“A year after that, the great red star, its waist now nearly to Jupiter, all at once collapsed in on itself and exploded into a supernova that vaporized every remaining planet, asteroid, and comet of the eighteenth planetary system of the third spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. A beautiful magenta-and-yellow wash spread through space, like spilled watercolors. Sensors aboard the hundreds of starliners recorded the event, but even just a short time later, when the Second Fleet would awaken near Delphi, those brilliant clouds would already be gone, and only a small, cold neutron star would remain, a celestial gravestone to humanity’s birthplace. But here, in this final moment . . . As arcs of plasma glowed . . . As stardust glittered . . . As rare elements formed in the atomic foam . . . A fleet of silent black ships, flickering like droplets, moved swiftly into the storm they had secretly created, and got to work.”
― Kevin Emerson, Last Day on Mars

“He couldn’t quite put his finger on”
― Kevin Emerson, The Oceans Between Stars

“Every civilization is just an attempt, a best guess...And they're all imperfect, shots in the dark, and they all end in a flood.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Dark Shore

“species doesn’t have the best track record when somebody else is living on the land that you want.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Oceans Between Stars

“Numbers are outlaws--bandits. They make rules in your mind.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Fellowship for Alien Detection

“The tide that swallows a people is born of its own darkest desires.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Dark Shore

“We can only hope that our little step helps the next attempt get closer to divine. That someday humanity becomes something better than itself.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Dark Shore

“Oh no.”
― Kevin Emerson, The Oceans Between Stars

“I know it's hard," Jovie said gently. "You've probably spent a long time felling like you don't belong, like you weren't a part of the world around you. But that's the drift talking." She motioned to her friends, to the crowded fort with it's warm light. "And this is how we fight it.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters: A Riveting Sci-Fi Mystery About a Forgotten Friend and a Deadly Town Secret for Children

“beyond time”
― Kevin Emerson, The Shores Beyond Time

“Jovie suddenly had a strange feeling like she was viewing her life frow above, in it and apart from it at the same time. despite all they had just seen and done, in this universe and beyond, she might just remember this the most. This room these people. it didn't matter what was happening anywhere else, or what had happened before, or even what would come next.
'Just this,' she thought, looking at her three friends. 'Just hold on to this.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters: A Riveting Sci-Fi Mystery About a Forgotten Friend and a Deadly Town Secret for Children