Teyla Branton > Quotes

“spooked, he’d be willing to come and get me—provided I could make it out of the mansion and off”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“You know, this is the real difference between us. Your parents raised you to trust people you don’t know, to expect them to be their best, while mine taught me to mistrust everyone until they prove themselves. That might not have been the best way, but some people don’t deserve to be trusted.”
― Teyla Branton, Touch of Rain

“wasn’t every day I had to inform people I wasn’t actually dead.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“The bombing occurred nowhere but in my fertile imagination. Enjoy!”
― Teyla Branton, First Touch

“The next thing I knew, I was being rolled into a cavernous”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Some things you must fight for—even if you know there’s no way to win. Otherwise all you have left is regret.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“I’d been wrong. Oh, so wrong! I”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“I wasn’t imagining his hands running over my body. I wasn’t. There”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“I didn’t want his pity. On the other hand, I did want and need his friendship, even if that was all he could offer.”
― Teyla Branton, Touch of Rain

“Someone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth . . . Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency). She works hard with other enforcers to maintain peace and order among the CORE’s two million residents, especially against the radiation-crazed outsiders called fringers.”
― Teyla Branton, Sketches

“Too young. When did I start thinking of a hundred and ten as being young?”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“ON THE DAY I SET foot on the path to immortality, I was with Justine in her car driving down 95th on our way to pick out her new sofa. Ordinary. That’s what the day was. The plain kind of ordinary that obscures the secrets lurking in the shadows—or behind the faces of those you love.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Take my advice, though, and don’t back down. Fight for what you want. Even if it’s not important.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Then again, only one person had tried to murder me since my arrival, and”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Sometimes I worry that he’ll wake up and realize I’m not what he bargained for.” “Oh, he’s probably already realized that, but he doesn’t care. He loves you just the way you are.”
― Teyla Branton, Touch of Rain

“The greatest revenge we will have is to go about our lives, raising our children, and finding happiness wherever we can.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Being Unbounded didn’t mean I was better; it meant I had the responsibility to help and protect those who weren’t as strong.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“Well, I suppose there could be worse ways to die than cradled in a coffin full of sweet gelatin. I gave up fighting and let my right eye close.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“What a messed up world I’d stumbled into, where friends were betrayers and the enemy was the one who was sorry. Where friends lied and the enemy told the truth.”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“So what if you believe it can’t be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.”
― Teyla Branton

“Well, I suppose there could be worse ways to die than cradled in a coffin full of sweet gelatin. I”
― Teyla Branton, The Change

“We had so little when compared with the rich of the world, but we’d had everything that mattered.”
― Teyla Branton, First Touch