Stephanie Osborn > Quotes

“A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”
~Sherlock Holmes”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

“Night-time. Why is it, I wonder…
Always, always it is at night when
The fury of a hurricane makes itself felt.
Perhaps it is because the spirit of the storm
Delights in the darkness, for there it can
Unleash its rage most potently, most
Anonymously, upon the element of earth?
Or perhaps it is simply because we
Humans are afraid of the dark.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Stolen Moments

“Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what."
~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,”
― Stephanie Osborn, Burnout: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281

“In ev'ry life there comes a winter bleak
That, in it, never yet seems life to come
And on each heart such desolation wreak
That even light from Heaven seems succumb'.
But, even as in year, doth follow Spring
As ever hath it, through all Ages past
Yet so in life a joy again will ring
And light and love will come again at last.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Stolen Moments

“Imagine if you will, creatures as unlike us as it is possible to be; creatures whose technology dwarfed ours as we dwarf the ants. Creatures whose sole purpose was to wipe out all existing life on Earth and replace it with their own. Beings who did not know the meaning of mercy, who were uninterested in dialogue, with whom one could not even plead. That is what we were up against, Henry.”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Bunker

“Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

“No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Alpha and Omega

“A person plans and God laughs.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Alpha and Omega

“hand. I was charged with organizing the messages: descriptions of the creatures, descriptions of their space vessels, descriptions of their conveyances, of their weapons, of their movements. Positions of our soldiers, of our allies’ soldiers. Troop movements. New arrivals of space vessels. Reports of casualties. Dear God, the casualties. And their descriptions. Charred piles of ash; bloodless carcases; crumpled, broken bodies; crushed jelly; roasted, dead meat. All…in these hands.”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Bunker

“In a dispute with a horse over which of you has the right to occupy a given square foot of ground, the horse will always win...”
― Stephanie Osborn, Texas Rangers

“Well, it is generally considered— though not always true— that the wife of a man so honoured is likely also to be worthy of the honour, and so it is accorded her. In the event it is false, and I have known that to be so in more than one circumstance , it is still accorded her in deference to her husband."
~Sherlock Holmes, with respect to aristocratic titles”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Cosmological Killer: The Rendlesham Incident

“I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs…I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.”
~Sherlock Holmes”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

“The distance between the site of an emergency and the location of help dilates with increasing urgency.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Texas Rangers

“Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”
~Sherlock Holmes”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

“Time dilates during an exceptionally stupid and painful event, with the limit on delta-t approaching infinity as the levels of pain and stupidity increase.”
― Stephanie Osborn, Texas Rangers

“Wait awhile, and everything will change."
~'Griblich”
― Stephanie Osborn, The More Things Change

“That’s our cue,” Dr. Chadwick noted, managing to approximate a cheerful smile, addressing the room at large. “Everyone please stand behind the yellow line until the doors open. No food, drink, flash photography, or video cameras are permitted. Once aboard the ride, please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times until we come to a full and complete stop. Otherwise, they’re apt to end up in another universe somewhere without ya, and wouldn’t that fry your noggin?”
― Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival