Space Opera Quotes

“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“Let a sleeping dragon lie.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince was surprisingly young. And silvered.”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“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

“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“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

“Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Ashes of Man

“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

“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

“But the longing was there. That inexplicable human conviction, older than language, that the stars are not simply out there that they are, in some way that resists articulation, home.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“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

“I know the ship's sounds the way a person knows their own heartbeat not consciously, until something changes.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Distance, as you once understood it, no longer applies to you.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Universal Alien: Guardian of the Galaxy

“Death, it turned out, had a sense of irony.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Children of Titan

“Some discoveries don’t change the world. They end it.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Lost Signal

“The universe isn’t dying… it’s being rewritten.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Vanishing Stars

“Ancient Chinese saying: All things are difficult before they are easy. We are here to face obstacles and to conquer them! Conquer them, Yangtze Yan. Conquer them.”
― Mark Dean Stratus, The Mars Debacle

“Ancient Chinese saying: All things are difficult before they are easy. We are here to face obstacles and to conquer them! Conquer them, Yangtze Yan. Conquer them. ¬–from: THE MARS DEBACLE”
― Mark Dean Stratus, The Mars Debacle

“Briefness is the glow of meaning, and the drive to purpose.”
― Ian Hills, The Operator

“The universe does not forget—it simply remembers in ways we cannot understand.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Memory Planet

“The greatest legends are never buried by time. They are waiting for the moment humanity is ready to remember them.”
― Jason Meyer, Atlantis A New Home: Volume III

“I felt it as a G-force that building pressure that starts in your chest and spreads outward, reminding you that you have mass and the universe has more.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES