Trish

“What we have here, he told himself, is a Mk1 Feisty Old Lady: turkey neck, embarrassing sense of humour, a gleeful pleasure in mild cruelty, direct way of speaking that flirts with rudeness and, more importantly, also flirts with flirting. Likes to think she’s no ‘lady’. Game for anything that doesn’t carry a risk of falling over and with a look in her eye that says 'I can do what I like because I'm old and I have a soft spot for rascals'. Old ladies like that were hard to fool.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“I hate things that try to take away who you are. [...] When you take away memories, you take away the person. Everything they are.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“It is truly amazing how many flavors of dumb an apocalypse can spawn.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“But, at the end of all of that, we'd have had the problem that any actual alien invasion would face, and that the genre novels and entertainments so seldom really consider. Which is what the hell use is an Earth once you have it? If you have the universe, why go to the trouble? An Earth, populated or depopulated, what would one do with it, exactly? Too big a trophy to go on the mantelpiece, and not exactly full of rare resources to us, who can go anywhere. Earth people are very big on their own significance. One longs for those narratives to have the Arcturian Battle Fleet just glide on by, embarrassedly signalling, Sorry humankind, we're going somewhere actually interesting, can't stop!”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker