Shawn

“Ida was a planetary woman. She knew—she had seen it proved in math, in words—that the apparent safety of a planet’s solid ground beneath her feet was based on precisely the same physical laws that described the construction of a spaceship, that there was no real difference between the solidity of dirt beneath her feet and the hollowness of sculpted carbon and iron. She knew this for the fact that it was, but Ida Stays was a planetary woman, and it was with a planetary woman’s fear that she froze in the darkness, because Ida did not believe in God, did not believe in any gods at all, only the cold fact of existence and man’s ability to work within the inflexible laws of nature, but somehow she, so human, so unmechanical, somehow she trusted the engineer that had constructed the planets far more than the human ones who had built the ships that flew between them.”
― C.A. Higgins, Lightless

“Bolt actions speak louder than words.”
― Craig Roberts, Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom

“The Highbulp frowned. “How me know you not take all treasure, leave Highbulp only one mad dragon? There be lot of treasure, pretty rocks.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

“If di-Master Strinni knew any sort of sign language, it would be the Human variety.”
― Timothy Zahn, The Domino Pattern