Alien Planet Quotes

“This was supposed to be a dead planet? No. It just looked dead, and with typical human arrogance, we'd taken that at face value. Maybe there were whole worlds underneath that black and rocky shell.”
― Sean Danker, Admiral

“I’ve waited for him to invite my confidence, to fill the void my mother’s death left in my life. I’ve hungered for his affection. But he made me wait too long.”
― R.L. Martinez, Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018

“Plants: infinite plants, not one species known to the visitors from the house of Man. Infinite shades and intensities of green, violet, purple, brown, red. Infinite silences. Only the wind moved, swaying leaves and fronds, a warm soughing wind laden with spores and pollens, blowing the sweet pale-green dust over prairies of great grasses, heaths that bore no heather, flowerless forests where no foot had ever walked, no eye had ever looked. A warm, sad world, sad and serene.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

“...no one knows better than I what a good woman your mother was. But she had a weakness for misery and it led to her death. I don’t want the same thing to happen to you.”
― R.L. Martinez, Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018

“If someone told you your life was going to end then offered you an olive branch to life, would you take it?”
― E.C. Downes, EUROPA Dreams (EUROPA #1).