Greg Keyes > Quotes

“Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“I have an idea," Cazio said after a moment.

"What a lonely creature it must be.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“If wishes were teardrops the world would flood.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“you have to leave something behind to go forward
-Newton's Third Law of Motion”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar

“Don’t trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The ‘why’ of a thing—that’s the foundation.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Anger was beautiful, because its core was the absence of all doubt. When anger wrapped you up in yourself and you knew that you were right and righteous—that the very universe was in agreement with you—at that moment you were a god, and anyone who crossed you or disagreed with you was worse than wrong, they were heretics, apostates, twisted in the very womb.”
― Greg Keyes, Lord of Souls

“Murphy’s Law doesn’t mean bad stuff will happen,” he explained gently, really wanting her to understand. “It means ‘whatever can happen… will happen.’ And that sounded just fine to us.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Love, like gravity, which could move across time and dimensions.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Sometimes distance improves love. Sometimes it dissolves it. I think you deserve to know which has happened.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“Anakin: "Hi Tahiri."
Tahiri: "Hi, yourself, great hero-from-the-stars who's too good to keep in touch with his best friend."
Anakin: "I've—"
Tahiri: "Been busy. Right."
―Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila”
― Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory I: Conquest

“Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it."
-Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory: Conquest)”
― Greg Keyes

“.. Look, I know you're probably mad at me-"
"'Probably' mad at you?" Annaïg exploded. "You tried to kill me!"
"Yes, I see now how that might upset you," Slyr said.”
― Greg Keyes, The Infernal City

“I am a blade of silver, a sickle of ice - Assassin Ghe, old assassin mantra”
― Greg Keyes, The Blackgod

“He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“If you had never known how good loving could be, you would not hate it so much with your husband.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“This world’s a treasure, Donald. But she’s been telling us to leave for a while now. Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Death comes to call, you cannot hold water in your hands for long, it leaks away, goes where it's meant to go. To the soil, to the sky. To ions then space, where stars are born."
―Ikrit”
― Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory I: Conquest

“Memory flashed, of a blue dress and a face glancing up at him, and eagerness and trepidation exchanged blows on the battlefield of his heart”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“thought he knew how to begin. “After you kids came along,” he told her, “your mother said something I didn’t really understand. She said, ‘I look at the babies and see myself as they’ll remember me.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“You're bored. Two weeks without someone trying to kill us and you're bored out of your mind.

Leia to Han”
― Greg Keyes, The Final Prophecy

“Understanding is the essence of enlightenment.

-Harrar”
― Greg Keyes, The Final Prophecy

“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me.”
― Greg Keyes, The Briar King

“You say science is about admitting what we don’t know,” she said.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Anger always makes you feel good at the time. Makes you feel bigger than yourself makes you feel that everything you do is justified. But it's a trap.

Corran”
― Greg Keyes, The Final Prophecy

“Anakin: "You look…different."
Tahiri: "Older maybe? I'm fourteen now. Last week."
Anakin: "Happy birthday."
Tahiri: "You should have thought of it then, but thanks anyway. Dummy.”
― Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory I: Conquest

“Might-have and mud are fine places to wallow”
― Greg Keyes, Lord of Souls

“His physical body, this physical body was not—could not be—in the past. But gravity could. Like Tars said, gravity cut across and through all of the dimensions. When he punched at one of them, what he was really doing was sending a pulse through space-time, a gravitic surge that was responsible for moving the books.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Part of being a Jedi is setting an example."

-Corran Horn to Anakin Solo”
― Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth

“Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time,” he said.”
― Greg Keyes, Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

“Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend”
― Greg Keyes, The Blackgod