Jennifer Foehner Wells > Quotes

“The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” ―William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar,”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“You’re supposed to be the damsel in distress. We’re supposed to save you.” She snorted and pulled her hand away. “Times have changed.” “But what does that make us? Two dudes in distress? Pathetic.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“He’d picked up on the structure and rules of the alien code quickly, drawing parallels to his extensive knowledge of code on Earth. He’d riffed, “It’s all just ones and zeros no matter where you go in the universe, Jane.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Our government has no interest in nearly extinct languages. They barely have a grasp on the one they use.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Warmth flooded her body and she felt her skin flush, sweat prickling her hairline. Pain dissipated to nothing but a numb, hollow feeling. Some combination of drugs seeped into her, promoting pain relief and relaxation. She felt her taut muscles yielding, even as a network of filamentous webs encased her and tugged her lower into the gel. Her arms grew heavy and sank into the gel of their own volition. Or had they been pulled there?”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“You see, we—all of us—are alike at our core. From the lowest microorganism to the highest form of Sentient, we share the most basic aspects of all living things from protein folds to cellular organization. The secrets lie within the dual nature of intron and exon—expression and suppression and recombination of these—allowing life to seek infinite forms.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“I have a bathroom that’s bigger than this thing,” she said in a thick, pinched voice. He grinned at her. “Sure. But can your bathroom manage twenty-five-thousand miles per hour?”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Slowly turning into Darth Vader was not all it was cracked up to be.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“I don’t have the finesse you seem to think I have.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Technology serves life. It does not destroy it. These lessons are rooted in the very foundations of Sectilius culture and law, without deviation, under threat of penalty of strictest nature.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Raub’s quarters were gross. They were decorated like something out of a hunting lodge crossed with a whore’s boudoir from a bad Western film.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Inheritance

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“But, why give her all of this?”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“Tinor was much younger than Jane had thought. Children were considered genderless until puberty in sectilian culture. If she spent any time with this child or any other, she’d have to remember to use the third set of pronouns, the gender-neutral set, or risk making a fool of herself.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“It was so disappointing to find out the rest of the universe was just as full of greedy, amoral, bigoted bastards as Earth. Apparently achieving interstellar travel did not automatically mean that a species was morally evolved.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Confluence Codex 1 #1-3

“I know it’s okay. I’m just fucking tired of playing Princess Buttercup to your Wesley. Next time, I’m rescuing you, goddamn it.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. CARL SAGAN”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“In the moment when the last remaining filament between Hain and the Mother broke, the Mother’s parting thought raced through Hain’s mind, but Hain didn’t process it until later, when the sticky amber gum that oozed from her open wounds had begun to harden, and the euphoric newness of freedom had subsided. The Mother had said, “Come back to me soon, little one.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, The Grove

“All this stuff dividing us doesn’t really have a lot of meaning. There are women who act like men, men who are more feminine, white folks who love black culture, black folks trying to be more white. Why does it matter so much to all of us? All these labels? Why can’t we just be? Why is conforming so important? Why isn’t diversity cherished instead of vilified?”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Vengeance

“Well, except for the women who kept trying to get in his pants. But that was too damn weird to be erotic. They were so cold about it. No preamble, no coy invitation, just sneak attacks to feel up his junk. He could be walking down a corridor on a way to a meal and out of nowhere a hand would be clamped on him. It was fucking embarrassing. He found himself pushing these women away and looking around wildly to see if anyone had observed the insane interaction. Of course no one ever seemed to notice, and Ron said the same thing was happening to him. At first Alan had thought it was kinda funny, but it had happened so much that now he was just in a perpetually wary state, keeping his distance from everyone and carrying stuff around awkwardly to keep his privates armored against invasion at all times. He was now very sorry for every bra strap he’d ever flicked as a twelve-year-old boy. For every unnecessary brush against a woman’s breast. For every time he’d stared at a woman’s shapely ass as she walked away. Was this how women felt when that happened? Like a piece of produce being squeezed to see if it was ripe enough? Jesus.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“We were meant to be this way. Not to fight the worst aspects of our nature, but to embrace them.” “Just so. To exploit your inherent qualities, in the service of others. It is the belief of many that they hoped to create a warrior class that would turn the tide, yet leave their brethren to live in peace. To respect the diversity and protect it.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“The unhinged jaw of a nepatrox mouth—with the wide flaps to either side flapping away—greeted him through the window. The beast had climbed up on the wing. It was bigger than any of the ones they’d seen on the Speroancora.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“Why did they need to be alone to do that? It’s not like she hadn’t watched them before when they thought she was sleeping. She’d teased them that they sounded like monkeys.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency

“He glanced back at the device with wonder. The thing was an artificial wormhole generator. That in and of itself was freaking insanely cool.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Remanence

“my genes are an accident of birth and have nothing whatsoever to do with who I am as a person.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Vengeance

“You may call us Feles.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

“(Feles in Latin means cat and also thief)”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Symbiont Seeking Symbiont

“I’m not getting much penetration here!” Gibbs yelled.
“Aim for an open mouth!” Walsh barked. “It’s their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!”
Alan shouted, “For the record, I’m very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship!”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency