Lightspeed Quotes

“SCALES Alastair Reynolds”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“No one wants to see how Jupitarians pee. Actually, everyone was interested, but once they saw it, they didn’t want to see it again.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“We can’t send pictures because the gnomes have no cameras (silly gnomes) so I will describe everything.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“The space cucumbers started coming here a few months after Nancy Ann ran off. I don’t know why they picked this place”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“never allow someone to test a time machine on you.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“Harlow himself appears in a third of his royal portraits something like a massive winged koala with extremely long, ultraviolet eyelashes and a crystalline torso.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“Jennifer Axioma-Singh, who had not been able to think of any alternatives, brooded over the matter until she came to the same conclusion always reached by those enjoying lives of privilege, which is that such inequities are all for the best and that there wasn’t all that much she could do about them, anyway.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“balancing a marriage’s weight against single independence. But weight is relative, and what’s heavy on Earth is light on the Moon and monstrous on Jupiter.”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One

“The word defines us relative to each other: one cannot be apart without the other. Einstein”
― John Joseph Adams, Lightspeed: Year One