Justin Woolley > Quotes

“This, as you might recall, was a shuttle piloted by Captain April Idowu, who had taken a solo flight down to the moon to try and secure a sample of the Aegix nanobots that had been released from the crashed probe that escaped way back in book one, back in those simple days when we were only concerned with saving the galaxy and not all the implications of time travel and whether you’re clever enough to write your way out of this absolute mess.”
― Justin Woolley, Shakedowners 3: Slack to the Future

“The sandy soil beneath him was similar to that of his Uncle's farm. When you looked at it up close, you noticed how what seemed to be a vast unending blanket of red was really made up of many millions and millions of grains of different colors, red, orange, brown, gold, all blending together. There was a lesson in that, he was sure, something he should remember : that no matter how different people were, when enough of them got together, they all seemed the same, or maybe they were made to be the same...”
― Justin Woolley, A World of Ash

“Unfortunately, the logic of ‘this seems dumb’ never seems to permeate political differences.”
― Justin Woolley, Shakedowners 2: The Vinyl Frontier

“The lights on the bridge flickered and a strange crackling noise came through the speakers, followed by the chorus of Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achy Breaky Heart which, mercifully, stopped quickly. Not only because it was terrible but also because it was one of the few songs from Earth that had been banned under the 2156 Treaty of the Rights of Sentient Beings due to the detrimental effect it had on the brain chemistry of a number of species. Any longer and Iridius may well have been up for a lofty fine.”
― Justin Woolley, Shakedowners 3: Slack to the Future

“killed by the flying body parts of their comrades. That was something far more common than people realised. Aldalon himself had seen Imperial Guardsmen killed countless times by pieces of other Guardsmen. They tended to leave that off the recruitment posters and out of the motivational brochures; no one wanted to think about having their skull crushed as the ripped-off leg of their best friend hit them in the face.”
― Justin Woolley, Catachan Devil