Leaping to the Stars Quotes

“Everything was inside-down and upside-out. And that was just fine with me.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Only three months ago, we’d been in El Paso and I’d been wondering why adults acted so stupid. Now, I was taking on adult responsibilities-and adults didn’t seem so stupid at all.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“He’s not happy unless he has someone to be angry at.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“All this boy-girl stuff. Sometimes it gets very confusing.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“The communications from Earth were scattered and haphazard and didn’t make sense half the time.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I wasn’t the only one feeling strange. Everybody was.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I’d been so wrapped up in my own upsets I hadn’t thought about anybody else’s.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Reverend Doctor Pettyjohn was just another adult with an agenda.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I disappeared into the beautiful noise and for the first time in a long time, I felt complete.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“My fingers leapt across the keys like dancers; they took a life of their own, rushing to keep up with the manic frenzy of the music.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I don’t know whether to thank you or spank you.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“As an employee/partner/indentured-personality of the Dingillian Family Corporation my responsibility is to serve the corporation, no one else.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“If I was going to be miserable, I didn’t want anyone talking me out of it.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Launching in blood was a bad omen.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“You’re carrying around a lot of anger. I don’t want it on my bridge ever again.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Her full title is Reverend Doctor Morgan. We call her Morgs.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I had a feeling this was one of those conversations that I’d be replaying in my head for a long time-usually late at night when I was lying in bed, trying to fall asleep and not doing a very good job of it.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Anger is a drug. You can get addicted to it. There are times when it’s useful. This was one of those times. But try not to have any more, please?”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“I cried as we launched-why do stupid adults have to spoil everything?”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“His eyes met mine and I knew he hated this situation as much as I did.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“We’ll all feel a lot better when we get off this rock.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Regulations prohibit noncoms on the flight deck, so-congratulations, Ensign. You are now the Acting Assistant Flight Engineer for the starship Cascade.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Not only was James Glass the first lawyer on the moon, he was also the first lawyer murdered on the moon. According to Christie, the reason they named the crater after his father instead of him was because no one wanted to name a crater after a lawyer. If Christie was telling the truth, then Lunar history was not only stranger than I imagined, it was stranger than I could imagine.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“There was too much to think about. And even though these people had been thinking about it for years-they were still worried they might have missed something.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“The complex explanation-well, even Douglas frowned when HARLIE started explaining and Douglas probably knew more about synthetic intelligence than anyone else in the solar system-because he had synthesized his own intelligence instead of going through puberty.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“The colonies considered cargo tampering to be a crime as serious as murder-because not having what you needed when you got where you were going could be just as fatal.”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“See what I mean about knowing all the words and still not knowing anything?”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars

“Every baby born is a gamble, but that doesn’t stop the human race from making babies, does it?”
― David Gerrold, Leaping to the Stars