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Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot" Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash
— Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Welcome to the Information Jungle.
— Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow
For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.
— Jacqueline Rayner, Doctor Who: Magic of the Angels
A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I hoped was a smile. At least there weren't any sharp teeth.
— Mary G. Thompson, Escape from the Pipe Men!
With no one to share suchbeauty the attraction fades.
— Kathy Bell, Regression
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head
— Damon Knight, Far Out
Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.
— Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas
Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...
— Steve Alten, The Loch
A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one
— Kathy Bell, Regression
Oh, traccy traccy ply ply bracket doints and divs
— Yahtzee Croshaw, Will Save the Galaxy for Food
I've got a thing about heights."Nate glanced at her. "I thought you had a thing about bugs?""I've got more than one thing, it's allowed.""You were okay up in the loft, said Debbie."Because the loft is a nice big space with guard rails," Veek said. "A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.
— Peter Clines, 14
Even an Astral Adventure needs a little sensuality."Perhaps you can show me how tastefully decorated your bedroom is." Lee probably felt I did not know what to do next and needed direction. Maybe so, but I did know our coffee was going to get cold.
— Scot Fin, Ralph and the Girl From Mayfair Towers
Life on the go was not a problem for them. Understanding, and sticking to the rules of time travel, was more the challenge. - From Detours in Time
— Pamela Schloesser Canepa, Detours in Time, #1
This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
Much of our lives are wasted by finding reality, even though we live in unstable nature and with many irrational laws.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Is the murk which lives inside me,actually a dead star?
— Sameer  Khan, Eerie Edges
Mind the gap, Jack
— Andrew  Smith, Passenger
Riff needed the pain in his body to mask the pain inside. Once he'd enjoyed the pain only because it brought pleasure with it, but that distinction had gotten lost.
— Marguerite Labbe, Pandora
What do you see when you touch me now?" Riff asked, his gaze searching Zed's face. Once again, Zed sensed that electric zing of sexual awareness. Riff Definitely knew what he wanted, "Enough heat to set me on fire. Hunger that matches my own.
— Marguerite Labbe, Pandora
It had taken going to hell for Zed to find what he'd unknowingly been searching for his whole life.
— Marguerite Labbe, Pandora
He carried emotional and mental scars as long-lasting and vivid as the whip marks on his body.
— Marguerite Labbe, Pandora
All psychological philosophy of behavior of humans are subjective and coming in test in real time in the domain of epistemology.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Most of our lives are wasted by finding reality, even though we live in unstable nature and with many irrational laws.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Withdrawal and advance are two defaults within one second, but each second of error is critical and threatening in a crucial time.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Sometimes the human's fraud may reach a peak level and drag the credibility under criticism, so it will make him difficulties distinguishing the integrity in the darkness of the dungeon.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Sometimes, The knowledge alone is not enough to win the round. To win, you should be a good politician as well!
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
An absurd thing may drive us crazy, but this would be golden path to reach reality beyond our wisdom and imagination.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Eagles can fly higher than other birds, but a small sparrow can evade much better and has a better chance to survive, if falls off the height. (Sentence from my ebook, Tora-Bora mountains)
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Author
Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants. That is insanity.Wrong, it's being human.
— Ben Counter, Hammer of Daemons
Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been
— Alastair Reynolds, Revenger
Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.
— Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.
— Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars
Yes,” Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. “Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca’s speech patterns?
— Ash Gray, The Thieves of Nottica
Light side? Dark side? Oh no, it's all grey to me.
— Jolee Bindo
It’s you,” she murmured, staring at his eyes, a fine, dove gray.He smiled. “Of course, it’s me. Let’s get you back to your boat.
— Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance
Dave had been fun when they’d first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, turning him from Mr. Right to Mr. Wrong.
— Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance
How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course.” One minute he’d been practicing his swing, and in the next—phzzt—a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him.
— Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance
Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home.
— A.L. Buehrer, A Stargazer's Question and Beyond the Ecliptic
Darrow: "Does he really believe believe in magic?" I ask.Daxo Au Telemanus: "He says gnomes steals ear wax from him at night. Mother thinks he's been hit too many times in the head." Daxo backs away following his father. But he can't hide the his clever smile as he pops a jellybean into his mouth. And I see where the ones in my pocket came from. "I say he just lives in a more entertaining world than we do.
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
A tiny thread can pass through the tiniest hole of the needle, just if you intend to sew.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
Why do you tell me this?" he asked. "How can you know who I'm speaking to?
— A.L. Buehrer, A Stargazer's Question and Beyond the Ecliptic
Are―you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor―good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof.
— Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Lot of our life wasted by finding the reality, although we live in unstable nature and with a lot of illogical laws.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
The obstacle in chain of nature does not occurs due of global warming, but by the destructive power of human's mind.﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
Try and endeavor almost have the same interpretation, but in one meaningful difference. Who doesn't try to get his goals, should endeavor more than just try. (Tora-Bora mountains)﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
Maybe, The nature of fox is cheating, or maybe a raven doesn't know who is the fox at first, but a raven doesn't fall in the fox's trap and wouldn't swallow the bait, because, the nature of the raven originally is being cautious. ﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
A robot can do everything you admire and love, but a robot can not understand your feelings deeply and it has no any sense to being human. It is so disgusting see those humans that behave like robots as if they can love, but deep inside they lie to their faiths. (Hadas Moosazadeh)﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
When we reject unreal things in advance, we never can observe see them. Focusing can lead us to stray. Aliens may be replicated in our cells. ﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
The pen against ignorance, the blood against knowledge, the murder against liberalism. Let to the enemy to live into its foolishness. This would be the best weapon against him.﻿
— Hadas Moosazadeh
Just untrustworthy persons can be invisible, not because of their willingness seemingly to be confidential, but because of their fear to be identified. A reliable person wouldn't disappear and wouldn't be invisible. To be invisible is a feature and principle of spies, otherwise, you cannot put on them the stamp of spies.
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
look! Outside darkness going to brighten and the dawn of morning comes to welcome. The life starts with the light, and here we are under the heaven and earth. (Hadas Moosazadeh)
— Hadas Moosazadeh, Tora-Bora Mountains
We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-clusters, the final flash. Regrettable, unavoidable, a war to end all wars, a war for democracy, a war for freedom, peaceful war. Sometimes war is necessary. Sometimes war is right. But to the broken and the dead, to the wounded and the maimed, to the exploded and the shrapnelshattered, to minds gone dark, to eyes that have seen agony no tears can wash away, it hardly matters that the dead language of war repeats itself through time. The bodies that can say nothing have the last word. What is it — the last word? No.No more war.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
Shouting didn't help. Kathy keyed her landing skids down and strangled the thruster grips onto full. A flagman on the ground dove sideways. The fighter whizzed past the man's prostrate body, her skids unfolding only feet above his head. She nearly beheaded three others as she scrambled to decrease power to her belly thrusters and fight spinning into a sideways slide. Suddenly a group of people came into view at the edge of the tarmac. “Oh shit!” She killed her belly thrusters completely.The skids hit the cement like a Boeing 747 with no tires. She slammed back into the seat. Metal screeched against cement. Everything shook like a jackhammer. The big Shimeron slued sideways then slammed her into her harness as it lurched to a halt. Every part of her including her hands shook. She took a deep breath and tried to calm her tremors enough to power down.“You did it, O’Donnell,” she said as the gyros whined down in a groan of sympathy. She removed her helmet and pushed back her flight suit hood only to have a pile of sopping wet sparkling hair flop out over her face. She swiped it away and released the canopy. A blast of cool ocean air filled the cockpit. Carefully, she peered over the side of the cockpit.Bodies lay strewn about on the ground. A few prostrate forms moved. Kathy sank down into the seat with a grimace. Great, you just killed your welcoming committee, you twit.
— K.L. Tharp
Deep down, we all have our dark thoughts, Kathy. Mine are no different than any others. My life was planned for me, like my body was engineered to be what it is, a Prime Elite. But underneath it all I am still a man. Though I did not want this bonding at the beginning, it is now a part of me . . . and a part of you. We will work things out, my wife and we will do it together, that is what I accept. Also,” he adjusted his arm around her, feeling her discomfort. “I know that without you there is an emptiness that I cannot put into words. It is an emptiness that I will not live with. Thus, I do not wish to be free of you . . . ever.
— K.L. Tharp, For A Brother's Honor
Mars is not Earth. It doesn't have a thick atmosphere to bend light and carry particles that reflect light around corners. It's damn near a vacuum here. Once the sun isn't visible, I'm in the dark. Phobos gives me some moonlight, but not enough to work with. Deimos is a little piece of crap that's no good to anyone.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.
— Ian Strang, The Grand Scheme of Things
The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.
— Ian Strang, The Grand Scheme of Things
Oh...oh, goddess, it's true about your tongues...
— Savannah Stuart, Claimed by the Warrior
Keep search in sci-fi and many other places books, stories and many other stuff... Keep searching, don't stop and you will find it!
— Deyth Banger
Tammaru’s office looked like NASA’s control room designed by Donald Trump.
— K.L. Tharp
On this planet are every kind of deadly animal from across the stars. The only people that come here are hunters looking for the most dangerous of trophies. No rescue. You either get your prize or you die.
— RoChe Montoya, Planet Prey
To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.
— Orson Scott Card, Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century
If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.
— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.
— Tessa Maurer, The Toxic Children
If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I always want to be with you. And not just... not just to talk to. When you touch me... I don't want you to stop.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
You think this is a walk in the park, that it’s all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.
— RoChe Montoya, Planet Prey
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall
— E.J. Jackson, The Journey and other Short Stories: a debut collection of tales with a science-fiction twist
It could be a work of art among vendettas
— Frank Herbert
Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.
— Katherine McIntyre, Solid Ground
To be whole is to be part
— true voyage is return.
It just doesn't make sense. They're afraid of technology, because of its threat to humanity...yet they don't flinch at taking a life. So obviously they're not big on logic. But there's no shortage of irony.
— Dr. Will Caster, Transcendence
Man is an endangered species.
— L. Ron Hubbard
All those years of lurid magazine covers showing extremely nubile females being menaced in three distinct colors by assorted monstrosities; those horror movies, those invasion-from-outer-space novels, those Sunday supplement fright splashes—all those sturdy psychological ruts I had to re-track. Not to mention the shudders elicited by mention of 'worms,' the regulation distrust of even human "furriners,” the superstitious dread of creatures who had no visible place to park a soul.("Betelgeuse Bridge)
— William Tenn, The Campfire Collection: Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters
Taking a chance on a new author, can open your mind to new experiences.
— Jonathan  Taylor, The Forgotten Mission: The Return #1
She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want to pretend they’re fucking the queen of Xenon.
— Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Tiago had heard of what some called the 'human database' or 'omnilogos', but nothing could have prepared him for this.
— Michele Amitrani, Omnilogos
Moses threw the spent cigarette butt to the ground. It bounced once then lay still. A lazy wisp of smoke drifted towards the reaching shadows. He pushed himself to his feet and brushed flakes of grit from the seat of his jeans. Stuffing his hands in his pockets, he moved away from the pipe and began to negotiate a route down the alley. A rivulet of cans, wrappers and remnants of kebabs dotted the ground like flotsam; the waste of nights past, discarded by the nameless, faceless masses marking their territories with futile gestures. Oh, sure, the trash was still emptied these days – there were still garbage men around, but it just delayed the inevitable, prolonging the agony of a tired and dying world.
— Scott Kaelen, Moses Garrett
People fear what they don't understand. They always have.
— Max Waters, Transcendence
It just doesn't make sense. They're afraid of technology, becauseof its threat to humanity...yet they don't flinch at taking a life. So obviously they're not big on logic. But there's no shortage of irony.
— Dr. Will Caster, Transcendence
She’s a lunatic,” says Conrad.“Absolutely insane,” says Guntram.“Either completely fearless or utterly stupid,” says Conrad.“She’s going to fit right in,” says Guntram.
— Emily Lloyd-Jones, Illusive
Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?
— John Ringo, When the Devil Dances
Falling apart wasn't an option.
— Lissa Price, Starters
I really don't know who I am, so I don't know when to stop, so when I see a big threatening button that should never ever be touched, I just want to do this!
— David Tennant
It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.
— J.S. Morin, Mad Tinker's Daughter
I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire
— Charles Stross
Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso]
— Kirsten Arcadio, Split Symmetry
The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.
— Jackie Mae
Quite a few soldiers . . . had ended up spending some time wrapped around each other, alone in the night. Most often, it was just for the touch of another person and not in the pursuit of an entangling relationship. In fact, when it happened there was usually an unspoken covenant which existed between soldiers to just forget whatever had happened and move on, as many preferred not to talk about how you secretly needed to curl up in basically the fetal position, tucked away with another psychologically damaged human, deep in the bowels of your tin-can refuge from the deep black, just to get through another week of it all.
— Robert Lee Wolfe, An Invisible Thread: The War in the Orion Arm
I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.
— Georgia Clark, Parched
Knowing that a particle can occupy two different states at the same time—a state known as superposition—and, two particles, such as two particles of light, or photons, can become entangled, means that there is a unique, coupled state in which an action, like a measurement, upon one particle immediately causes a correlated change in the other.If there is a better word to describe my relationship with Fanio than entangled, I have yet to hear it. Even when the two entangled particles—or people—are separated by a great distance (and I mean emotional or physical distance, such as mine with Epifanio, or like being at opposite ends of the universe), their movements or actions affect each other. Yet, before any measurements or other assessments occur, the actual "spin states" of either of the two particles are uncertain and even unknowable.
— Sally Ember
My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
— Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware
I don't really know who I am , and I don't know when to stop, so if I see a great big threatening button that should never ever be touched I just want to do this!
— Russel T. Davies
Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.
— Ann Gimpel, Earth's Blood
In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which we can escape and exercise our love for all things beyond our ken. close off these speculative worlds at your peril.
— Ella Berthoud, The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?
— Dave Turner
Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data.  [crew laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny? Wesley Crusher: [laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Accessing. Ah! Burns and Allen, Roxy Theater, New York City, 1932. It still works.  [pauses] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Then there was the one about the girl in the nudist colony, that nothing looked good on? Lieutenant Worf: We're ready to get under way, sir. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Take my Worf, please. Commander William T. Riker: [to Captain Picard] Warp speed, sir? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Please.
— Star Trek The Next Generation
And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?
— Douglas Richards, I'm on the Way to a Brighter Day: A Collection of Writings on Feeling Good about Yourself and Making Your Life the Best It Can Be
ESPE: So, in both conversations, Lama Sangyay steers you away from thinking directly about Epifanio or your relationship (or lack thereof) and right into the nature of your mind. So masterful.CLARA: Isn't he? I hate those instructions. I do not want to do those contemplations. I want Epifanio!ESPE [laughing]: Of course you do. How does it feel to want?CLARA: "Et tu, Brute?"ESPE: Oh, sí, Señora. ¡Yo también!
— Sally Ember
Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to remove my cranial unit and take it with you.Riker: Let me get this straight--you want me to take off your head?Data: Yes sir
— Star Trek The Next Generation
The cybernetic operation?""No, the sex change."The doctor's smile faltered."I'm joking.
— Marissa Meyer
If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out there. But you, Rachel, you’re worth dying for.” - Tristan Jacobs
— Joni Hahn, Agent I1: Tristan
Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.
— Toby Frost, Wrath of the Lemming Men
While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit---we will kill it.
— Travis Beacham, Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero
Rejoice in the colours…
— Michelle Frost, First Light
I know about your happy little illusion, that you never call your wife by name, that you take amphetamines just to give yourself that kick in the ass that reminds you that you’re not a machine, that you have the constant need to be on top because you’re so far down the evolutionary ladder that a f***ing amoeba uses you as a footstool.
— Ken Alexopoulos, Sanctified - ACT 1: Born of Man: ACT 1: Born of Man
The princess turns to him, serious. 'You are the one my great-grandfather spoke of: a denizen of Earth wearing a dirty apron who falls down a shaft and lands in sticky goo to lead the Brundeedle race out of Woe Time.':
— Eric Laster, Welfy Q. Deederhoth Meat Purveyor World Savior
What? An alien. You think I'm from outer space." She snorts in disbelief. "I'm Kelly Tillman, you dumb-ass. From 41 Montana Avenue, Valentine, Texas. What's left of it. I canned seventh grade for a piece-of-crap job with lousy tips and lousy hours. You ain't telling me I'm the outsider here. No way.
— Philip Webb, Where the Rock Splits the Sky
Great," mumbles Kelly. "Bat stew cooked on a bat shit fire by an old bat.
— Philip Webb, Where the Rock Splits the Sky
This is a robbery. Sorry for the inconvenience'n'all but if you don't line up out here at the count of five then I'm gonna get all trigger-happy on your ass. One, two...
— Philip Webb, Where the Rock Splits the Sky
Visitation Day - I was not even born yet when the world stopped turning, twenty years ago. It is hard for me to imagine that moment, though I have heard the tale many times, for I have never seen the light of the moon or a sunrise
— Philip Webb, Where the Rock Splits the Sky
One thing I have in abundance here are bags. They're not much different than kitchen trash bags, though I'm sure they cost $50,000 because of NASA.
— Andy Weir, The Martian
Your past is my Future.
— Dean Koontz, Lightning
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her “Snow.
— Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
Piece of cake really – Enforcers, crazy psychopath dude with giant laser rail guns, throw in a few bounty hunters, a couple torture experts – sounds great, I really can’t wait can you?” Duv Jackson, Gunship
— J.J. Snow, Gunship
A beautiful woman belongs to everyone but an ugly one is yours alone” -Gunny Chang, Gunship
— J.J. Snow, Gunship
Outnumbered! Ya’ll are always the hell outnumbered!” - Marek, Gunship
— J.J. Snow, Gunship
Our universe might have slid into equilibrium emitting nothing more than a quiet hiss. The fact that it spawned such plenitude is a miracle, one that is matched only by your universe giving rise to you.
— Ted Chang
I told you it was easy,” HARV said.“True, but you say that about everything.”“That's because everything is easy for me.”“Everything but humility.”“No, that's easy, too. I just choose not to practice it.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
Don't worry, boss,” HARV said. “I get the feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg of complications.”“HARV, you’re a machine. You don’t get feelings.”“Would it make you feel better if I said I've done a numerical analysis on the probabilities and the results are skewed toward you having more problems with this case?
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
How bad is it?”“The story is only just now being reported, but let's put it this way,” HARV said. “The bag is now clearly catless, and there’s a very foul odor coming from the fan.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
— Zane Stumpo, Schrodingers Caterpillar
Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.
— Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through the cardboard walls of the boudoirs and tattooing copies of the Machinist’s ‘Twelve Terms’ on the bodies of whores and patrons alike. Forty pieces of merch ruined. Their bodies had been obliterated by language, all traces of their sexuality buried beneath a storm of words. There was something horrific about the sight of those who had survived a typewriter attack. Their faces scarred with text, as if they had become hostages to some awful advertisement. A few of the victims took to working the streets around the library where bibliophiles sometimes paid them to satisfy their fantasies amid the desolate hush of the reading rooms and the deserted stacks where the only witnesses to this erotic pantomime of the blank body and its printed partner were other words.
— Craig Padawer
Stupid Ape: I had to quantify this with the word “stupid” so as not to offend the ape community. Large of limb, impotent of intellect, he was the kind of guy who lettered in leg-breaking at thug school but flunked the written exam because he didn't know which end of the e-pencil to use.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
No thanks,” I answered, “I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
From her own life experience Keldaren knew that loveable hunks were in short supply anywhere in the galaxy, loveable hunks who knew her were an extinct species, and that more marketing companies than friends had her phone number.
— L.L. Watkin
Yeah, but will it hurt?”’ I asked.“This is science, Zach,” Randy said, reassuringly, as he tilted my head back and lowered the lens to my eye. “Of course it will hurt.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
‘Foo Kyu’ is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence.""Just think about his poor son, ‘Foo Kyu Two.’ 
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
I smiled, reached into my pockets and pulled out a pair of ultrapowerful earplugs, the kind that are standard issue for skyway construction workers, artillery soldiers, and roadies for the thirty-five most popular teen boy bands.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
I focused the power from my armor into my leg and kicked the door in. The metal and plastic fibers splintered and the hinges ripped free from the wall.“By the way, boss,” HARV said. “I believe that the door was unlocked.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
You bastard, stop that whistling and fight me like a man!
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
Great Gates almighty,” HARV said inside my brain. “I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS.
— John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde
As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that’s if you live to be 185.”“And that’s meant to make me feel better?” I said.“No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
Carol, I thought you didn't liked playing with the minds of normal people.”“Yes, but the press don't count as normal.”“She’s got you there,” HARV added.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
I can tell you that she's not breathing,” he said. “She has no heartbeat and all organ function and brain activity have stopped. Also her body temperature is now at seventy-three degrees.”“So you’re saying that she’s dead,” I said.“Well, I can't prove it, but, yes, I am leaning that way.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
W turned on his heel and began walking toward the door at the far wall. And by walking I mean, of course, not moving at all, at least not to the naked eye, because his strides could only be measured in micrometers. His creaky legs made barely the tiniest of forward steps, so he’d taken four strides before I noticed any lateral movement at all.“I'll be right back.”“Geologically speaking, of course,” HARV said.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
Forget it,” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you.
— John Zakour, The Doomsday Brunette
Who knew that you would be The One," I smile, "which I guess makes me your Trinity.""My Amidala.""Your Zira.""My Sylvia.""Your..." I scour my brain, trying to remember some other great sci-fi love interest."Ha! I'm your Saphira," I settle back smugly, only for Trevor to start lau
— Cindy C. Bennett, Geek Girl
From the first she showed a curious sensitivity to what, I suppose, may be called the 'influences' of the place. She said it 'smelled' of ghosts and warlocks.
— Abraham Grace Merritt, The Moon Pool
At one time, we all were Gods.
— Bjorn Street
It made Craze smile, despite wishing most of his body parts would find new homes and leave him in peace.
— M. Pax, The Backworlds
It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It’s the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We’ve come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Qeya
Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Qeya
Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Qeya
Gem thought it would be hilarious to shear his brother’s fine hair off while he was sleeping. Ever since then Menai decided he actually preferred the Mohawk. Both had inherited their mother’s Western Continent coloring, a blend of pearly white and sea grass green that set their bold sea-colored eyes off handsomely. And since they had grown old enough to realize this, they had become a pair of pre-pubescent manipulating terrors.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Qeya
There are moments in time when the axis of the universe shifts, when life as you knew it is irrevocably altered. When the hiss and grind of the gears fell silent, some deeply rooted instinctive part of me knew this was one of those moments.
— Jennifer Silverwood, Qeya
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.
— J.R. Ward, Covet
The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor.
— Drew Karpyshyn
He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison.
— Tom Conrad
Life involves a lot of unknowns.
— S.L. Wallace
James had been acting a little weird. After waking up yesterday, he'd been a little bit distant. It might just be the stress of the trip. It was probably hard on James to be in charge of the little group. He was responsible for the welfare of his lover, a nun, and a talking horse. That couldn't be easy.
— Anne Tenino, 18% Gray
Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.
— Vonda N. McIntyre
My tears had unexpectedly become real.
— S.L. Wallace
I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.
— S.L. Wallace
You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
— S.L. Wallace
Oh, I wonder if there's another way.
— S.L. Wallace
I'm a wanted fugitive, and you're an upstanding bachelor of the year!
— S.L. Wallace
This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira
— S.L. Wallace
We're more alike than you realize.
— S.L. Wallace
Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.
— S.L. Wallace
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
— Ellen Hopkins
How long will you keep me?" I asked.You shrugged. "Forever, of course.
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.
— Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted
She reaches up and pulls my face to her and kisses me, her soft lips on mine. I don't want her to stop kissing me. As long as she is, then everything is fine. Everything is right, I would stay in this room forever if I could. The world can pass by without me, without us. Just as long as we can stay here, together, in each other's arms.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
This is where we go our seperate ways.Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes."I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to."The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it."I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come.His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.
— Alyson Noel
Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want to laugh with you when you're happy and hold you when you're sad and--hell. I don't even know what all. This is uncharted territory for me, but I know that I Buzz Lightyear love you. You know--to infinity and beyond?
— Susan Andersen, Burning Up
How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?
— Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan
Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?
— Stacey Jay
Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi
— Yuu Watase
Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Because Days come and go but my feelings for you are forever, one last kiss before I go, dry your tears, it is time to let you go 
— Papa Roach
The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever.
— J. Cole
I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
Sestrilla, hafelinaJue amourasestrillaAwou jue selavienaEn patre jueTranslation:Beloved one, little catI love you for all timeIn this timeAnd all others
— Christine Feehan
your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.
— Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.
— Kipling Swehla
My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?
— Mary Balogh, Simply Love
The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
Immortality doesn't fit with death,as mortal doesn't fit with eternity.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful!
— Kaori Miyazono
My darling I still love you,no matter that you're gone.You'll always be with me,forever and ever more.
— Anthony T Hincks
It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
You’ve got forever, but that’s no time at all. You’ve got forever; and somehow you can’t do much with it. You’ve got forever; and it’s a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.
— Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me
It can’t last forever. Others have thought suchthings, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn’tlast forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
I held her like tomorrow would not come. It stitched me, if only for a second...
— Ahmed Mostafa
Love someone and they're yours forever
— Alice Hoffman, The River King
You see flaws in every faceIf you look long enough.That’s why I’m so afraidOf the word ‘forever’. Forever is long enoughFor sunrises to become staleFor fire to become tameFor a favorite songTo become like nailsOn a chalkboard
— Forever is long enoughFor passion to waste awayLike grapes into raisinsUnder the beating sunOf countless days.
Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that’s why we’re here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.
— Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone
Forever was my heartbeat and it was the hope tomorrow held.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever
Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever
— Unknown
I don't want these clinical, awkward setups. I don't feel like doing this twenty more times. I can't imagine meeting my soulmate through an interview process. I want to know without words. I want fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no choice connection.
— Tia Williams, The Perfect Find
Jamie reached across and took my right hand in his, his fingers linking with mine, and the silver of my ring shone red in the glow of the flames. I looked up into his face and saw the promise spoken in his eyes, as it was in mine.“As long as we both shall live.
— Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross
No, no, my heart's fire, you misunderstand my words." Keir shifted to Xyian. "When I spoke that word, and made that pledge to you, I didn't really understand what it meant."He shifted slightly, pulling me closer. "It doesn't just mean for years and years, for the rest of our lives. Or as we would say, to the snows and beyond.""Oh?" I still wasn't sure what he was trying to say."'Forever' means every day, every breath. Through the mistakes that we make, through the love that we share between our bodies, through illness we suffer, through sorrow, frief, and joy. All of it, Lara.
— Elizabeth Vaughan, Warsworn
You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you and I will always love you.
— Edward Cullen (Stephenie Meyer)
The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever
— Sunday Adelaja
And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...
— Deyth Banger, ((...)...)...
He says, "You know I love you. Still. Forever".
— Sally Green, Half Lost
Please let there be another life. I need a real taste of forever with you. This ... this isn't long enough.
— Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone
I always thought that soul mates were meant to be forever but I learned that soul mates are only Meant To Be.
— Kate McGahan
The idea of a random stranger walking up to me one day and saying, 'Hey, baby, you smell like forever. Let's do it,' isn't all that appealing honestly.
— Hailey Edwards, Dead in the Water
No matter how the road winds and turns, as long as you are there at the end of it I’ll be happy, Rowdy.
— Jay Crownover
She felt as though she’d found a moment of forever. Like this was how they should’ve always been
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
We stand, gazing at each other, until Ivy moves again, pulling me into another super hug. But this time as my arms touch her waist, it somehow feels softer than before. I wish I could hold on forever.
— Colleen Boyd, Swamp Angel
In the name of forever, let's burn down our today and tomorrows.
— Akshay Vasu
Flynn was kissing her again, not to help her forget but to force her to remember. Everything he had meant to her then. Everything he meant to her now. How he always had been, and forever would be, her world.
— Kate Meader, One Week to Score
What is once well done is done forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'll love you forever, even when I can't.
— Colleen Hoover, Confess
Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I was also pointing out that she is right. I still love you.”“You still love me?”“I’m still here, aren’t I?” he asked rhetorically. “You were my first love, Traning Bra. That kind of thing could last forever if you let it. I don’t really have any intention of stopping it. That call is all on you. Until then, I love you.
— Samantha Strauss
Sookan, don't look so sad and dark. I will never stop thinking of you. Nothing will end; nothing ever does. Everything good that touches our lives becomes part of us forever. You know that.
— Sook Nyul Choi, Echoes of the White Giraffe
The existence of 'forever' depends on how you treat 'now'.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?
— Ellen Hopkins, Tilt
Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
I wished I could stay forever, in this moment. Like in one of those plastic snowballs, one little moment frozen in time.
— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there's a chance I can make her happy... If I can save what's between us... I'll do it, so fucking tell me!
— Katie McGarry, Breaking the Rules