Marco Palmieri > Quotes

“Ensign Ezri Tigan pushed her long dark hair from her eyes and peered through the slightly fogged viewport of the medical transport pod. Inside, bathed in billows of inert nitrogen and the purple mist of Trill ocean water, the glistening brown, sluglike shape of a symbiont, the life-form that was the driving force behind Trill civilization, the shining ideal for which all Trill children were raised to aspire to serve, pulsated slowly. Ezri screwed up her face. “Ewww. That’s so gross.”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering what kind of creature Curzon Dax was, to weave so tangled a web.”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“I think one of the reasons I liked him so much was that he had more faults than the usual, socially acceptable Trill.” —Benjamin Sisko “Dax”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“I think,” I said, “that a culture must deny individuality to the point that symbolic logic systems have developed. After that point, there should be sufficient divergence to encourage creativity. But after a time, the needs of the one must be subsumed into the needs of the many.”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“Vic laughed. “Seems to me that you didn’t want to get joined because you were afraid of losing yourself. But from what I can tell, none of Dax’s previous hosts lost anything from being joined. They just got more.”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“What is a person if not the sum of her memories?” —Lela Dax”
― Marco Palmieri, The Lives Of Dax

“Afraid she would laugh, she focused elsewhere, landing in Tuvok’s familiar, structured psyche, which she always pictured as a spice rack, neatly organized alphabetically,”
― Marco Palmieri, Distant Shores