Space Opera Quotes

“Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.
— Rhett”
― Rowena Cherry

“Brother Cavil:

In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ...

I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ...

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”
― Ronald D. Moore

“As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.”
― Rowena Cherry, Forced Mate

“Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.”
― Brian W. Aldiss

“Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.”
― Leigh Brackett, The Best of Planet Stories 1

“I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.”
― Hafsah Laziaf, Unbreathable

“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion

“I have spent my life battling monsters. It was only in realizing that I was the monster, and choosing to destroy her, that I could save the world.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion

“Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse.
No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!”
― Robert Silverberg

“Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

“Acababa de dejar mi huella en el mundo”
― Juan Ignacio Quiroga, Conexiones resilientes

“Chrysta couldn’t speak for shock. She dared not hope. Life had trampled her dreams far too often for that.”
― C.E Stone

“Some would call me a defector,' he continued, 'and accuse me of switching sides. Can the parts of a man articulate the sum?'

-Starganauts: Defector”
― C.E Stone

“Morrissey almost never passed out during sex. It was a trait he prided himself on, along with good hygiene and impeccable punctuality both of which had come in very handy over the past several hours.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“Morrissey almost never passed out during sex. It was a trait he prided himself on, along with good hygiene and impeccable punctuality - both of which had come in very handy over the past several hours.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“They would be coming for him soon. He didn't know who they were, of course, but there had to be a they. There was always a they.”
― Warren A. Shepherd, Sex, Bugs & UFOs

“One might think that when the universe falls to pieces, chaos is inevitable: anarchy, barbarism, and madness would thrive, followed by the destruction of everything meaningful that sentience ever built. And although we know that this has been happening in certain places, something else entirely unexpected transpired as well. The surviving inhabitants of said universe adapted to the situation in a surprisingly swift manner.”
― Helyna L. Clove, Skylark in the Fog

“The moment the first missile crashed into the Skylark, Captain Jeane Blake realized she had gravely underestimated the danger they’d gotten themselves into.

The spaceship jolted, and a series of yellow warning messages flashed up on the screens. On the radar display, the markers showing the Lark and the Union vessel hot on its trail flickered in and out of existence in the interference, and the gravitational anomalies of the lane kept throwing both ships off-course. Their pursuer was gaining on them.”
― Helyna L. Clove, Skylark in the Fog

“Money makes people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. [BRAVE NEW MARS, Somerset Meece]”
― Somerset Meece, Brave New Mars

“..Perfection is what we strive for, it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist. (The Evolutionary Void)”
― Peter F. Hamilton

“Some say a person can accomplish anything she likes, if she applies herself, but that's just an empty platitude. You can't actually do 'anything', but if you apply yourselves, you will discover strengths that others don't have. You'll surprise people who don't expect it of you. And that is how you become powerful.”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“Some say a person can accomplish anything she likes, if she applies herself, but that's just an empty platitude. You can't actually do 'anything', but if you apply yourselves, you will discover strengths that others don't have. You'll surprise people who don't expect it of you. And that is how you become powerful. (Sisterhood of Dune)”
― Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“I would not pretend in front of you;
I would not be able to hide my feelings;
I'd try
But you'd figure it out”
― Jazalyn, Hollow: a Love Like a Life

“When it's done for money, all the love goes away. Brave New Mars, by Somerset Meece”
― 'Somerset' Meece, Brave New Mars

“When Money is God, Profit is the Prophet." By Somerset Meece, author of Brave New Mars.”
― 'Somerset' Meece, Brave New Mars

“All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The atom made them all.”
― T. J. P. Campbell

“The Shadow said nothing. He merely stood, gazing at them in an unnerving manner.
“Curious,” he finally said. “For ones so talented, you know so little of this galaxy.”

- Starganauts, Defector”
― C.E Stone

“Fear. Terror. And piss. That was his story. Fuck the heroics; that was for the stories people wrote about it.”
― J Andrew Corbett, Simple Tricks and Nonsense

“Fear. Terror. And piss. That was his story. Fuck the heroics; that was for the stories people wrote about him.”
― J Andrew Corbett, Simple Tricks and Nonsense

“She could no more pick out the light of its death than pluck a particular molecule of salt from the ocean, but she knew it was there, and the fact was like a stone in her belly.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War