Gemma Voss > Quotes

“By the time I get off and make it a couple blocks towards my apartment building, I realize just how exhausting this week has been. An entirely new team, a wild situation, and a handsome alien that thinks I’m his hormonal soul mate. I sigh, knowing there’s no easy way to explain this one to the girls over drinks tomorrow.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“I had forgotten the simple pleasures of enjoying another person’s company. I realized how lonely I’ve been, and how his presence has changed that.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Criminal

“It was my understanding that love is shared by two persons that wish to be together, in the realms of both sexual desire and daily pursuits of enjoyment, and that there is a level of need involved, similar to addiction.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“I am enjoying my time with my repressed alien stalker far too much.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“I knew that she was the only female I would ever give up my duties for. The only female I could deem worthy of throwing away every rule I was taught, every responsibility.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“That universal disease, that sickening emotion which can take you in its grip and force you to do insane, illogical acts— It has me in its clutches! Needless to say, I was distraught.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“Kila makes me feel seen, like I’m the end-all-be-all, like I’m a no-brainer, like I’m worth every second of his time, like I’m worth being exiled over. Let’s just say a girl could get used to that.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“I don’t know what is right and what is wrong, anymore. I don’t know if I am a slave to her or made free by her, but I can only feel joy the moment I decide not to care about any of it.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“Those legends from the scrolls that spoke of breeding mates and bonding ceremonies— they were just the lost ways of history. Fuel for imagination. Until I saw her. Now, it’s my reality.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Criminal

“A couple weeks ago I was trying to explain to a giant reptile that grocery stores do not “steal” eggs from chickens that still have baby chicks inside them. She was personally offended by the idea that anyone would steal eggs from an innocent creature. Now, I’m explaining porn to a gang of hunky adult virgin men, one of whom I’ve already caught staring at my ass.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“Her small hands grip down on my shoulders. She grits her teeth. Is she in pain? “Tell me if you’re hurting,” I say. “Speak to me. I can fix it.” “Fix this,” she growls. My perfect, delicate mate rears back her head and slams her skull down on my forehead, whacking me with a force I’d not thought possible from such a tiny species.”
― Gemma Voss, Alien From Nowhere

“My name belongs in her mouth like that. It sounds better on her lips. There goes my barbarian brain again.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“Yes, my whole existence is now divided by Before and After. Before Ella, I was one person. Now, I am entirely another.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“I guess it doesn’t matter that I’ve decided not to con him. He’s perfectly willing to head straight into danger without being coaxed. “Oh yeah,” I mutter sarcastically. “I don’t want to see you lying in a pool of your own blood— that’s something to smile about?” “It’s certainly an improvement,” he says, dead serious. “Just earlier today, I thought if I were in a pool of blood anytime soon, you might be the one who put me there.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Criminal

“When we originally descended to the docking bay in the United States, I could see green areas and swathes of sparkling ocean, so I suppose there is a chance I will encounter more attractive parts of the planet. Until then, I find myself in a place called New Jersey. I cannot imagine what the Old Jersey must have been if the modern version consists of ugly black roads and block-shaped architecture.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“Love, and family… and sex— It might seem like those things aren’t important to me, because I put my career first, but I won’t compromise when it comes to love, Pakka. I want everything. I won’t take less.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“If we part ways, I will be faced with deciding whether to have the new suppressor chip design installed in my head. There is a chance it wouldn’t work, of course. But if it did somehow shut off my connection with my mate, would I even want that? Or would I prefer to sit with the pain, just so I could hold on to the memory of how it feels to be around her?”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Criminal

“It is stupid. Irrational. Mind-dizzying. I must be experiencing the emotion of ‘love.’ Earthlings tend to describe it as ruining one’s ability to perform logical thought sequences.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Criminal

“They're coming here, and they are going to crawl so far up my ass that I’ll have shit coming out of my mouth.” “I don’t appreciate that visual,” he growled.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“Newsflash, Pakka, but you’ve always been condescending as fuck so don’t blame the hormones.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss

“There is surely something very wrong with me. My veins feel like fire under my skin at the sight of her.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“His lips are rough as I crash into him. I’ve been told before that I kiss like a freight train. I’ve never bothered with anything gentle or tentative. I go right for the good stuff, slipping my tongue inside and stroking against his until he sighs.”
― Gemma Voss, Alien From Nowhere

“Missions to Mars are basically sandbox play to these life-forms. And wouldn’t you know, they came here with the express purpose of neutralizing a barbaric species before more harmful space exploration practices could be established. Pretty much the Space Age equivalent of “Hey kid, step away from the hot stove before you burn your mitts off!”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“Yes, my whole existence is now divided by Before and After. Before Ella, I was one person. Now, I am entirely another”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Handler

“It is as if she was made to be a warrior, but the universe forgot to give her the body to match.”
― Gemma Voss, The Alien's Boss