E.J. Fisch > E.J.'s Quotes

“I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic."

"I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope.”
― E.J. Fisch, Dakiti

“What do you think you're going to do with an antique rifle?"

"Probably shoot something with it.”
― E.J. Fisch, Nexus

“Is she always like this?"

"Like what? A sociopathic shouka? Not always, if you can believe it. Is she always damn good at what she does? Yes. Always.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“He wondered briefly if she always got people to do her bidding just by looking at them.”
― E.J. Fisch, Nexus

“I'm going to stick by you, for better or for worse."

"It will most likely be worse, you know."

"Yeah, I figured.”
― E.J. Fisch, Nexus

“He glanced to the walkways on either side of him, wondering what the chances were that he would actually catch sight of Ziva. Keeping an eye out for someone who didn't want to be found - especially when that someone was Lieutenant Ziva Payvan - was as close to futile as something could get. It wasn't a matter of finding her, but rather of her making herself known when she saw fit.”
― E.J. Fisch, Nexus

“Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're just one more arrogant shouka who couldn't care less about anyone but herself."

"You're not wrong there.”
― E.J. Fisch, Dakiti

“Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?"

"Would it help at all if I said I was sorry?”
― E.J. Fisch, Nexus

“You're a killer.... I never did peg you for an ordinary field agent. The way you carry yourself, the apathy in your eyes -- dangerous people recognize these things in other dangerous people.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected to ever see you again, and you just said--"

"Of course I came back, you idiot.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“You didn't have to do this, you know. I would have been fine."

"No, you wouldn't have. You would have done everything in your power to make sure everyone thought you were fine.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“Why? Why are you doing this?"

"Because, even though you sometimes make my job ten times harder than it needs to be, I've never doubted your abilities for a second.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“You know, I've always admired you for seeming so selfless and trying to shift the blame to yourself, but then I got to thinking...." He turned around to address her directly, and his eyes were colder than she'd ever seen them. "Maybe you just can't stand the thought of everything not being about you.”
― E.J. Fisch, Ronan

“You’re insane.”

“It’ll work.”

“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.”
― R.M. Drake

“Caleb!” The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt.

He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldn’t breathe. “Alex, I can’t.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Transcendence: Aurora Rising Book Three

“Why? Why did you kill them?”

He laughed, recognizing it bore a frightening coldness. “Because you walked through the wrong door, and they paid you to do it. You will be a testament to the terror that arrives the moment you or anyone else crosses the invisible line you didn’t know existed until tonight. Spread the word.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Restless

“Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.

Only one got off a shot.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Restless

“It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Restless

“You’re not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it.”
She marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. “You think I’m just going to trust you’ll let me go?” I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.
“You don’t have a choice.” She was right about that. “Relax. I got your back, Cale.”
“You’ve got a pistol in my back is what you’ve got.”
“Just like old times.”
Trust her? Well, shit.”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trust

“What emerged from the portal was not the feared armada. Instead, it was a single ship. A familiar ship. I felt a quickening in my atoms.

Clever, dangerous girl. I have been expecting you.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, bit because she continued on despite them.”
― Beau Taplin

“She climbed into the shuttle and got in his personal space. “Who are you working for?”

The man spat in her face.

She rolled her eyes and wiped the spittle off her cheek. Then she punched him square across the jaw before grabbing him by the throat. “WHO are you working for?”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“You ask me to make peace with the monsters who did this?”

She didn’t even look around at ‘this.’ “Yes. The alternative is extinction. There’s no coming back from that—no new weapon to fire when no one is left and you’ve no universe left to fire it in.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“Alex screamed and lashed out at the points of light from within, desperate for something tangible to rage against. Caleb wrapped his arms around her from behind and coaxed her out while glaring at the Metigen in loathing.

Then he lessened his hold on her to a single hand. Together they turned their backs on the alien and began walking away.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“People feared what they did not understand, and they without a doubt did not understand her. Those who believed they did least of all.

She was something new.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“2 SECONDS

He was on her in an instant to brace her against the wall. She kicked and clawed at her unseen attacker, skin and irises ablaze in caustic gold.

She fired anew, and the point-blank shot broke through his defenses, grazing his hip. He ignored the harsh sting to bring his Daemon up between them.

1 SECOND”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance