Spaceships Quotes

“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

“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

“She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“You look like you’ve been on a month-long bender. Have you?”

“No, Ken, I have not. I’ve just had a long week.”

Walked the streets of a city bathed in blood and stood amid a hundred thousand corpses. Negotiated a three-way peace treaty among opposing factions of a warring alien species who’d previously held me captive. Bullied the Metigen leadership into doing my bidding. Found out we’re not the real humans, and the real humans are currently enslaving the real universe. Oh, and I think I’m addicted to my ship. How was your week?

“Nothing a shower and some food won’t fix.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Abysm

“She returned his salute with a sly smile—a rare enough event that he eyed her suspiciously.

“Admiral Solovy, are you wearing a shit-eating grin because we won here today, or is there something else I should know?”

“There’s something else you should know.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Abysm

“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

“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

“Children are turning themselves into monsters and, quite frankly, it is your fault. You initiated the creation of this technology, then you allowed it to slip through your fingers.”

Miriam’s jaw tightened. “I disagree, but now is the least optimal time imaginable for assigning blame. People are dying, and I will not stand around debating semantics with you while they are.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“Semantics, Admiral. I’d appreciate an honest answer.”

“I’d appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them.” Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“A wispy murmur in the blackness. Blackness, where before there was only nothingness. It was dark, inky and thick, but there now existed the palpable sense of tangibility.

She gasped in alarm, but no sound came out of her throat.

"Where am I?," she shouted, but no words made it past her lips.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“I believe my judgment has never been clearer. I have seen firsthand their potential, their strength of will, in a way you have not.”

“You have loosed a chaotic, unstable variable into the Mosaic. They will destroy everything.”

“It is a risk. They also may save everything.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism.”
― James S.A. Corey, Drive

“Her perception was propelled backward, as if it were being pulled into a vortex. She slammed into her body, and her eyes flew open with a gasp.

“Alex?”

She sat straight up in the chair and grabbed Caleb by the shoulders. “We have to save them.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“Any Earth Alliance military personnel who, whether through affirmative acts or by inaction, assist these seditionists are guilty of treason and will be held accountable. To all present military personnel: you have five minutes to respond accordingly.”

She chuckled. “Bet more than one scuffle just broke out on board those ships.”

“Any second thoughts?”

Her head shook tersely. “We’re all traitors now.”

“It’s not traitorous to want to be free.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Apogee

“Crushed sandstone sifted through Caleb’s fingers, insubstantial as dust. A breeze caught the debris mid-fall and spirited it away before it could join the ashes blanketing the ground.

He stopped in the middle of what had once been a street, his arms pulled in at his sides, his fists balled in barely restrained fury.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“Laches faded away, leaving Miriam standing facing Hyperion, the Metigen who had orchestrated the slaughter of over fifty million people a short year ago.

There were limits to even deals with the devil, lines which should never be crossed…but she was beginning to wonder when she might find one.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Relativity

“People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Evening had turned the sky a deep persimmon. The remaining sunlight enriched the colors of the ubiquitous flowers and foliage to even greater vibrancy, as if the saturation filter had been notched up several levels.

Caleb noted all this in passing as he strode deliberately forward. He didn’t know how he was going to do this, only that he had to make the attempt.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“The universe is not ordered, and it will not become so simply because one wishes it. The universe is chaos made manifest. The military does a fine job of creating an illusion of structure, of dependable rules to provide an answer for every situation.

“But it is only an illusion, one which on its best days holds the chaos at bay.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“Chaos that closely resembled panic awaited.

Shuttles raced to the presumed safety of the planet below while fighters crisscrossed the perimeter of the station. Platoon-sized formations of frigates and several cruisers formed up and accelerated away. To where the approaching attackers were located?

She didn’t give a damn what her mother said in public. This was a bona fide insurrection.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Abysm

“Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. “No. Find another plan.”

“There is no other plan. This isn’t even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that’s certain to fail and end in your deaths.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Relativity

“An eerie, chilling voice interrupted him to reverberate through the house.

“You believe you are safe, but you will never be safe from me. My reach is limitless, my capabilities legion. Sleep fitfully and avoid the shadows, for know that I am coming for you. When I arrive, you will pay for what you did.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Relativity

“She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.”
― Thomas Pierce, Hall of Small Mammals: Stories

“I’ve always wondered about your name,” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.”
― Mads Sukalikar, Do Virgins Taste Better? And Other Tales of Whimsy

“Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn’t done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can’t be good.”
― James S.A. Corey, Drive

“We’ll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue.”

‘Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.’

He squeezed her hand. “Alex?”

“I’m ready, too.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance

“I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy’s cheek. “Unless someone’s bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You’ll want to strap into the jump seats.

“This could get interesting, and that’s before we get clear of the station.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Abysm

“Thing to know about the Reaches....It’s always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."
Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues”
― Amy J. Murphy, Rogues