Jumping Off the Planet Quotes

“One half of the world glows with reflected sunlight. The other half is dark, speckled with little city lights.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I’m trying to give you two things here, Douglas: the trip I’ve always promised you, and the chance you never had before on how you want your life to turn out.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“Mom says that the music is my way of trying to get close to Dad. But she’s wrong. The music isn’t my way of getting close to Dad or anyone. It’s my way of getting away from both of them and going somewhere else. Someplace where things always resolve in the final eight bars.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“Alexei didn’t bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I’d spent so many years shutting them out I didn’t know how to let them back in.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I didn’t know how Douglas and Mickey felt about the news, but the Earth seemed so far away now it didn’t matter anymore. Maybe that was the wrong way to feel, but that’s what I felt anyway.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“Well, that sort of settles that. The younger generation has come of age. All that’s left for us old broads is to find a nice warm grave and get someone to throw some dirt over us.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“How can we run away with you when it’s us you’ve been running away from all this time?”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I might be fired, but I still have friends.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“This is where you must each make a prayer to Saint Vladmir-“ We were at the final hatch.

“Saint Vladmir…?”

“I made up. He is the patron saint of smugglers. I smuggled him to heaven. Now let’s see if he is appropriately grateful.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I don’t know why people think adventures are so wonderful. Mostly they hurt, they’re boring, and they’re dangerous.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I am going to make too much money today, Mikhail. I will have to give you some of it or my conscience will trouble me-not too much, though. I do not have a very large conscience.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“You have the soul of a viper. Your mother trained you well.”

“I love you, too, Alexei.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“When we woke up in the morning, the gravity was completely sideways. Except it wasn’t gravity-it was centrifugal force. We were so high, the pull of the Earth was insignificant.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I was getting awfully tired of all the ranting, no matter who it came from.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“It wasn’t just a choice between Earth and the stars because that’s a no-brainer. That part was easy. The hard part was that Dad was asking us to choose between him and Mom.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I was standing on the longest tightrope ever. A suspension bridge between a rock and a planet. Caught in the middle, between Mom and Dad, Weird and Stinky. Not a child, not an adult, but something in-between.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“Well, it’s about you and Mom. Chigger and I were talking-and well, I mean-you are kidnapping us, aren’t you, Dad?”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“It was all supposed to be reassuring-but it wasn’t. Not really.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet

“Let him be, Dad,” Weird said. “It’s not your fault if Chigger wants to be a sociopath. You can blame it on Mom.”
― David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet