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

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

“With reflexes that were more like precognition, Han threw everything he had into an equally frantic bank.”
― L. Neil Smith, Star Wars: The Adventures of Lando Calrissian

“They were no different from day sounds, but anything that wears the cloak of night, especially on an alien world, partakes of the night’s mystery and terror.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye