Rachel

“It took time for light to reach the Eye from distant galaxies. The further out the Eye looked, the further it looked back into the history of the universe. Galaxies ten million light years away were glimpsed as they were ten million years earlier; those a billion light years away offered a window into the universe when it was a billion years younger than the present epoch.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night

“he limbered up, swung the guns up and down, side to side. The chair followed with them, giving him an exhilarating ride that was probably the real reason he liked the weapon so much.”
― L. Neil Smith, Star Wars: The Adventures of Lando Calrissian

“he didn’t care who ran the universe—he’d break whatever rules it suited him to disobey in any case, whoever was in charge—”
― L. Neil Smith, Star Wars: The Adventures of Lando Calrissian

“Say nothing,” Essada suggested. “It makes you more tolerable.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye