Tim Lebbon > Quotes

“Kasyanov, I think I’ve made it pretty clear,” Lachance said. “Our attitude controls is damaged beyond repair, retro capability is down to thirty percent. Several containment bulkheads are cracked, and there’s a good chance if we initiate thrust we’ll just flash-fry ourselves with radiation.” He paused briefly.
“We do still have coffee, though. That’s one positive.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“I realised that everyone and everything out there had a story, and that most stories would never be told.”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence

“He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.”
― Tim Lebbon, Dawn

“Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray,” Kasyanov said. “Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.
Hoop raised an eyebrow.
“Hey. Forever is a long time.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“We’ll start a whole new human race,” Hoop quipped.
“With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Level 4,” Lachance said. “Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.”
― Tim Lebbon, Into the Void

“Pride is a dangerous indulgence.”
― Tim Lebbon, Into the Void

“I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed?”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence

“quickly the fear was replaced with rage.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Hoop nodded. “Everything’s good.”
“For now,” Ripley said. “Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Everyone was doomsdaying today. *”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence

“I know I am an android, but I feel so ... happy.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Invasion

“A Je’daii needs darkness and light, shadow and illumination, because without the two there can be no balance. Veer to Bogan, and Ashla feels too constraining, too pure; edge toward Ashla, and Bogan becomes a monstrous myth. A Je’daii without balance between both is no Je’daii at all. He, or she, is simply lost.”
― Tim Lebbon, Into the Void

“Oh man,” Powell said, laughing in disbelief. “Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider’s dense webbing.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.”
― Tim lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen’s egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster’s face.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.”
― Tim Lebbon, Fallen

“Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves.”
― Tim Lebbon, Fallen

“Hold onto your dicks.”
“We don’t all have dicks, dickhead,” Kasyanov muttered.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“It was strange. I was already looking at something as it had been. History looked so calm.”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence

“To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.”
― Tim Lebbon, Fallen

“Relying on oneself is too much of an alien concept for so many. That is why millions have died.”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence

“This was a danger beyond humanity, one that had existed since long before humans even knew what the stars were.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“The head was an old rook’s nest which Francis had fetched down from a tree. It had taken her a whole morning to climb, extract the nest from its twisted bindings and transfer it down, relatively whole and undamaged. She filled holes with moss, and stuffed its insides with a bracken brain. ”
― Tim Lebbon, In the Valley, Where Belladonna Grows

“The world had shrugged at him and revealed its indifference.”
― Tim Lebbon, The Silence