Lindsay Ellis > Quotes

“Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Why, God, why had she listened to “Fergalicious” instead of the news?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“digging through her purse airily as though she’d misplaced a memory.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Please don’t apologize for the act of experiencing pain.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“they were born sterile, and even their ancestors didn’t experience sexuality the way humans do, because a human will, of course, fuck anything.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Are you okay?” he asked. She sat up. Of course she wasn’t okay. What about this was okay? The scaffolding of her entire being was threatening to collapse. “Yeah.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“We all have ways of showing our patriotism, and mine is holding my country to account. I want to dissuade her from her worst, cruellest impulses, for I truly believe that if she does not evolve past them, she will not survive.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Like remember in the ’90s how everyone was like, ‘Vote for me, I’ll be tough on crime’?” said Sol. “Well, it’s like that, but now it’s ‘Vote for me, I’ll be tough on aliens.’” If there was any color left in Cora’s face, it was gone now. “But … they don’t even know what they’re dealing with?” Sol snorted. “This is America. When has that ever stopped us?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Having washed the blood off her neck and face, she might have passed for merely a hot mess.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Cora gulped down the last bit of pancake, already starting to ache from having very rapidly eaten the whole plate. The whole plate.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Eli was a scene kid, the type that was just a little too into Panic! at the Disco to be trusted.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“it. I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Which, okay. Fine. At least it wasn’t Nickelback.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“Renewed religious fervor and fanaticism bloomed in the wake of the Black Death. Some Europeans targeted groups such as Jews, foreigners, beggars, lepers, and Romani, thinking that they were to blame. Attacks on Jewish communities became commonplace. In February of 1349, the citizens of Strasbourg murdered half of their population of 2,000 Jews. In August of 1349, the Jewish communities in Mainz and Cologne were exterminated.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“You might as well try to translate dolphin song without a dolphin-to-English dictionary.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“ROSA did not offer benefits,”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“TIME IS A SIDE EFFECT OF THE POCKET OF SPACE WE INHABIT, THAT OF THREE DIMENSIONS. WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF DIMENSIONS?” “N-not much.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“replace the tiered chiffon maxi dress with jeans and a My Chemical Romance T-shirt on clearance. Which, okay. Fine. At least it wasn’t Nickelback.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“You don’t know shit about anything but this cartoon caricature you’ve constructed about every culture that isn’t your own meathead version of whiteness.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Assigning gender to pronouns is just as logical as assigning race or height or any other physical attribute to them, and just as relevant to me.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“I ADMIT, IT IS FRIGHTENING. YOU ARE FRIGHTENING.” Kaveh snorted. “Well, you have a point. We are the species that produced Bill Maher.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Maybe it didn’t get tiny day-to-day human ceremonials like courtesy or wearing a bra,”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“They represent your own government,” he said. “Why are you afraid of your own government?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“I hate that the phrase daddy issues is even in the vernacular. Like abusive failures of parents causing lifelong damage can be dismissed as just ‘daddy issues.’ It isn’t creepy to compare your partners to your parents—your parents are the ones who train you what to expect from relationships. They teach you how love works, and they train you how to expect others to treat you. That’s true for everyone regardless of who your parents are.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“In that way, America is synecdoche for humanity as a whole—capable of such feats of wonder, such innovation, such compassion, but also such greed, such exploitation, such consumption, such empire, and such cruelty. Are these truly traits of our shared human nature? Is this an inexorable, inescapable state of our being? Or is this all the result of a shared construct that we have erroneously agreed is a necessary evil of civilization, a fiction agreed upon, one that might be changed? If it is the latter, then perhaps we might be saved, but if it is the former, if our self-destructive tendencies arise not from construct but from our innate natures, then I truly believe that we will not survive. After a point, it is not even a question of surviving First Contact; outside intelligences need not be our own undoing if we can take care of our own destruction ourselves.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Truth of the Divine

“Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Apostles of Mercy

“If an alien species has the power and technology to even get here, then it stands to reason that they have the power and technology to do terrible things. That doesn’t mean terrible things are inevitable or that we’d see them in our lifetime. But what do we do with the knowledge that terrible things are possible, if not inevitable?”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End