S.D. Perry > Quotes

“Expect Nothing”
― S.D. Perry

“It's not like I got caught masturbating, for chrissake; she doesn't know me, why the hell would she care if I'm superstitious? - Karen”
― S.D. Perry

“Cada amanecer era una declaración de intenciones que anunciaban la inevitable progresión del tiempo, y un recordatorio de que el mundo continuaría girando eternamente sobre sus pasos galácticos, haciendo caso omiso de los sueños de los seres que se consideraban importantes...”
― S.D. Perry, Caliban Cove

“The truth was, she couldn't stand to let such an opportunity pass; she wanted to see what was behind the closed door, because it was there. Because leaving it unopened would get under her skin.”
― S.D. Perry, Caliban Cove

“Perhaps we will meet again. Anything is possible, especially in a place like this.”
― S.D. Perry, Nemesis

“Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. —NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“She is the daughter of bestselling sci-fi author Steve Perry”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“oh shit that’s a SNAKE—”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“People who never cried were the weakest of all.”
― S.D. Perry, Unity

“the right to be a god”
― S.D. Perry

“Quark was definitely going to have to find out more about his nephew’s new friend.  The son of the Emissary, now the son of Charivretha zh’Thane; Nog apparently had an instinct for choosing powerful friends . . . . . . and if he doesn’t want to exploit it himself, why shouldn’t somebody else benefit? All this and the task force would be arriving soon, fresh blood for his dabo girls and many a merry Klingon getting roaring drunk on bloodwine. It seemed he’d been mistaken about something he’d said, only a day or two ago; the Federation really did care about the small-business man, after all. *”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“Over time, she’d come to believe that the only true emotional infirmity was denial; once a thing was accepted, it could be met without fear. She wished she could tell him that it was no weakness,”
― S.D. Perry, Unity

“But repeating the guilt, living in the pain, in the past—it doesn’t work. It denies time. It denies life.”
― S.D. Perry, Unity

“Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko,  Jadzia, O’Brien, and Julian, but hadn’t imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don’t do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians.  They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“Riker let it go, throwing himself into the work. Relaying orders successfully was a skill, and he could best contribute to the resolution of a crisis by managing the system, by making things happen appropriately.  And the faster he worked, the sooner he’d be able to call Deanna, and make sure she was all right.”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“And nothing’s more frustrating than having feelings you didn’t decide to have.”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“didn’t exist. Maybe, like her, Barry was scared, and sick of feeling like death could come at any time. Maybe”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“At the moment, she felt like she couldn’t possibly be surprised . . . and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble. As”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although that basically meant to prepare for anything.”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“I'll be as strong as I need to be.”
― S.D. Perry, Avatar: Book One of Two

“That’s it, keep rationalizing. Next thing, you’ll be suspecting Captain Wesker of planning this whole thing.”
― S.D. Perry, The Umbrella Conspiracy

“I’ve been Attainted.” Ro stared at her. “You mean . . .” “I mean that I am no longer welcome within the Bajoran faith,” Kira said calmly. “I’m forbidden from entering any temple, nor can I study any of our prophecies, or wear my earring, or look into an Orb, or even pray with other Bajorans. Ever.” *”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“September 30th, 1998. It's a day I'll never forget. The cop inside me died that day. And that night, Raccoon City was wiped out, thanks to the bioweapons created by Umbrella.”
― S.D. Perry, City of the Dead

“Why didn’t you say that’s what you were planning in the first place?” Vaughn smiled. “Because, Doctor, when they make you a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.”
― S.D. Perry, Twist of Faith

“She'd been crazy to consider it even for a moment. It was time to wrap things up to do what she'd come to do, to remember who she was. A freelance agent, a woman with no qualms about stealing or killing to complete a job. A cool and efficient thief who could take pride in a career with no misses. Ada Wong always walked away with the goods and it would take more than a few hours with one blue-eyed cop to make her forget it.”
― S.D. Perry, [Resident Evil: City of the Dead] [By: Perry, S.D.] [September, 2012]

“and she was beautiful, a beautiful, strange adventure just waiting to happen.”
― S.D. Perry, The Summer Man

“Because change is difficult,” Shiloh said. “As with letting go of anything, a memory, a relationship . . . even the bad seems better than the nothingness that might take its place. We know this.”
― S.D. Perry, Unity

“What was it that Nog was always quoting, one of Vic Fontaine’s colloquialisms . . . in for the penny, in for the pound? Ro”
― S.D. Perry, Unity