Joshua T. Calvert > Quotes

“When something is at its best, you should enjoy it as long as possible. If you are already thinking about the end, you bring the end into the now, how stupid is that? When something is beautiful, the wise person enjoys the moment as long as it lasts. When it’s over, it’s over, but I don’t end it prematurely to get ahead of the end. That’s like hanging myself early so I don’t have to die.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Extinction

“antipathy.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“The president takes the security of this facility very seriously, Major, so you should too. Retinal scanner,” she repeated, and Kowalski, who had paused briefly, continued his notes. James was surprised when the old officer nodded reluctantly.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Teleport

“No one wanted to let other people into their heads, the fear of judgment and emotional hurt was too great.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Gates of Hell

“tetracene crystals.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Behemoth

“Adrian”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Teleport

“Civilization without communications is no longer civilization,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Wall: Eternal Night

“We define ourselves by our sense of self and our sense of body, the two things that give a constant to our subjective experience,” she explained. “One feels at home in one’s body with all its peculiarities. It changes successively throughout life, at least through normal aging.” She looked at the leaves rustling back and forth in the light wind high above them in the treetops. “But the ‘I’ feeling always stays the same. You have felt like you—mentally, I mean—as an observer of the world you perceive through your eyes, always, regardless of your age. You have learned, had experiences, but the feeling of ‘being you’ has always been the same. When you know you don’t have long, that your belly is made of pain and is a ticking time bomb, it doesn’t change that constant, but it does change the relationship of the sense of I to the body. Without that, I’m still me, but I’ve changed again. You know what I mean?” “I’m not entirely sure.” Without looking, she could tell from the sounds he was making that he was sitting up and looking at her. “But I’m glad you’re feeling better.” “I’m not so sure,” she whispered, thinking of her mother and Yuri and Lyudmila. “I’m not sure.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Into the Darkness

“Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Wall: Eternal Night

“He nudged us in the direction of the truth so we could discover it for ourselves. How would you have done it?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Into the Light

“By now they were more than 93,000,000 kilometers from Earth, so the time it took their radio signals to cover the distance was a whole 5.2 minutes. Accordingly, normal conversations were out of the question. Instead, they got the questions recorded, which took the pressure off their answers. No one could heckle them and they could think about it long enough to avoid saying something wrong. They were astronauts, not television professionals, so no one on board was sad about that fact”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“We are a lonely ship on a river going through a darkness full of chasms while the crew complains about the food and punches holes in the hull,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Last Fleet

“Instead, she went over the data again and again until she could recite the exact alignment numbers for the telescope input without looking, then slept for an hour to avoid spending half the night with her forehead on the keyboard again, and finally drove back up Mouna Kea. Its switchbacks twisted her through the cloud line after three-quarters of an hour, giving her a beautiful, turkey-red sunset with long streaks on the horizon for the last 20 minutes of driving. They looked like the fingers of a doomed deity clinging hotly to the Earth. The majesty of the sight plucked a chord in her that her intense dream on the keyboard of her workstation had strummed and never let go. The universe was still a fascinating place—whether out there among the stars, or down here on the blue paradise they called Earth”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Pascal saw his plane hovering about 0.6 miles away just below”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Tears of the Sun

“each of us sees everything a little differently because our memories are all different. It's called constructivism I think." "Everyone experiences their own reality,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Gates of Hell

“retroreflective film—”
― Joshua T. Calvert, When the Light Failed: An Apocalyptic Mystery Thriller

“He really wanted to know, to uncover the secret of his friend’s calmness so he could use it himself. He would probably be a much better captain if he could only learn to keep his worries in check.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Tears of the Sun

“starships powered by antimatter.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Into the Light

“Jeremy Brandt”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Behemoth

“Then he had given him a talking to, although every single word had been aimed at himself.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Wall: Eternal Night

“Turn around and miss a cosmic millennium chance at first contact because we’re unsure? I’d rather get eaten for tweaking Moby Dick.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“in”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil 2

“Damn it, June, I completely lost track of the time. I’m way late for the Third Company inspection. Do you want to come?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Signal 3

“The elevator doors were right in the middle, in a central column, a building core that held the whole structure together.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil 3

“Even in a crisis, the greatest enemy of people is other people.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Wall: Eternal Night

“click”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Signal 2

“Dif-tor heh smusma.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Signal 2

“When technology reaches a certain level, the inevitable abstractness it brings makes us return to simplicity for a while.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Leviathan

“where two Asian women were cooking ramen dishes.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Signal 2

“Pascal Takahashi a special investigator.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Behemoth