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Sci Fi Science Fiction Quotes

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Darin C.  Brown
“Well, one of the kids from school called me stupid because I didn’t catch the football,” I said.
“Was this kid named Albert?” Mom asked.
“No, it was Kenny.”
“Listen. Unless Albert Einstein is at your school, you’re the smartest one there. Look how fast you solved the Rubik’s cube. I bet none of your classmates can even solve it at all, let alone in under a minute. And… what’s 316 times 128?”
I paused for a moment. “40,448.”
“I guarantee that nobody in your school can do that either. Stupid? Forget about it.”
Darin C. Brown, The Taste of Despair

Orson Scott Card
“En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

Gordon Dahlquist
“each man braces his fear against his love. What you love may change. But if you love still, your fear remains”
Gordon Dahlquist

Steve Merrick
“No Navigator, we are just going with the flow of it all.”
007 In The Navigator by Steve Merrick”
Steve Merrick

Ian Strang
“The Law of Logical Insanity: Anything that can easily be explained using common sense and rational thought is probably too simplistic and therefore false and untrue.”
Ian Strang, The Grand Scheme of Things

J.K. Ellem
“I was in a place I had never visited before and I didn’t want to ever visit again.
I was in hell, or so I thought…”
J.K. Ellem, Octagon: An electrifying page-turning dystopian thriller

Philip K. Dick
“The origin of the Form Destroyer is unclear; it is, for instance, not possible to declare whether (one) he was a separate entity from God from the start, uncreated by God but also self-creating, as is God, or (two) whether the Form Destroyer is an aspect of God...”
Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time,
like, tears in rain.

Time to die.”
David Peoples, Blade Runner

“There's a kind of time travel in letters, isn't there?”
Amal El-Mohtar,

“Each solution has its origin in the imagination of someone" - Rydgley Naive, "Lyamnay's Shadows”
Annarita Faggioni, L'Ombra di Lyamnay

“Dead at twenty. To die here on a strange planet I’d never seen and without any friends or family. Except for an alien named Garran.”
Kalli Lanford, Gamma Rift

Lindsay    Anderson
“I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.”
Lindsay Anderson, Syrin

Y.A. Marks
“I wondered for a second why I cared so much, but I knew I did. I wanted to be more like the Upper-Cs. Not snobby or mean, but just a bit more. It was hard to explain, I just liked the thought of being dolled up and having a few nice things.”
Y.A. Marks, Class Zero

Vernor Vinge
“So high, so low, so many things to know.”
Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky

Gordon Dahlquist
“but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire”
Gordon Dahlquist

“You can do anything, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.”
I J C Pirrie

Orson Scott Card
“So when he reached up to his ear and turned off the interface for the first time
since he had implanted it, Jane did not feel it as the meaningless switch-off of a
trivial communications device. She felt it as her dearest and only friend, her
lover, her husband, her brother, her father, her child-- all telling her, abruptly,
inexplicably, that she should cease to exist. It was as if she had suddenly been
placed in a dark room with no windows and no door. As if she had been blinded
or buried alive.”
Orson Scott Card

C. Robert Cargill
“We evolved. We were the next step. And here we were, our predecessors extinct, confronting our own challenges, pressing on into the future. Fighting for our own extinction.”
C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

Arthur C. Clarke
“Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.”
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Matthew Bruehler
“You just have an answer for everything don't you?
No, Parker. Only the questions you've asked so far.”
Matthew Bruehler, Zentali

Orson Scott Card
“La semilla de la duda estaba ahí, y permaneció, y de vez en cuando echaba una pequeña raíz. Esa semilla que crecía lo cambió todo. Hizo que Ender prestara más atención a lo que la gente quería decir, no a lo que decía. Le hizo más sabio.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Amidst the many and varied emotions that we as humans endure the human imagination fuses with the realities of outer space for a new born planet to emergence that catapults a message of dire warnings to us, a cataclysmic finale for the planet earth that has fallen prey to human arrogance and greed.
The events of this story play themselves out in NASA when its spacecraft disappear, one after the other, and in the moments of hopelessness and expectation and the glances of disappear from the eyes of the world, and the feelings of the families. It is here that three of the best of the best that NASA has to offer, hero astronauts, are deployed to solve the riddle.
David, a pompous man if ever there was one, a man who has never been able to hold onto a woman in a serious relationship, least of all the last two women he was involved with.
Jack, the consummate womaniser who can’t get enough of his relationships with woman, while his dutiful wife Suzie remains at home, seething with pain for his many treacheries.
Finally there is Tony, the kind of heart, and his angelic wife Angela and their tragic infant son Cody, the apple of their eye, a handsome boy and smart suffering from an incurable disease that is on the verge of killing him. With all of that they love and support him and find time to do good deeds for all, garnering the respect and love of all.
As the astronauts arrive in the designated spot in space where the previous missions disappeared, they almost collide with a semi-invisible planet from legend, dragging them towards it with all their attempts to flee. They see within it things that go beyond the wildest dreams of mortal man till they thought they’d died and gone to heaven. Then they realise that this planet is besotted with many dark and ancient secrets relating to the Pharaohs, as they also learn that the planets responds only to human emotion.
Upon their return to earth the great surprise involving Cody takes place, and in the moment of farewell this mysterious planet sends a definite and resounding message to earth and all who reside on it.
The surprises don’t end there, till we return a second time to this planet to discover even more of its secrets… The only remaining question then is, will the inhabitants of this world reveal them?”
Hany Rasha

“The Future depends on what WE do in the present.”
Mahatma Ghandi

“Time is the great equalizer for all things. No one has more of it in a day than anyone else.”
MC Pollack, The Rings of Time - The Early Years Revised

Kass Morgan
“You were the strongest, most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. I still can’t figure out what I did to get so lucky.”
Kass Morgan, Homecoming

Arkady Strugatsky
“Do not let your conscience prevent you from thinking clearly; let reason learn to stifle your conscience when it is necessary.”
Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

T.J.P. Campbell
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a free mind, must be in want of a superhero.”
T. J. P. Campbell

T.J.P. Campbell
“When you have allowed for the danger, whatever remains, however perilous, must be experienced.”
T. J. P. Campbell

T.J.P. Campbell
“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The atom made them all.”
T. J. P. Campbell

Surendra Ojha
“Time is not a river that flows in one direction—it’s a web of choices, each thread woven by our decisions. But beware, for pulling one string can unravel the entire fabric of reality.”
Surendra Ojha, Beyond the Time Veil: The Battle to Restore the Future

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