The Eternal Tide Quotes

“I love you," Kathryn said simply.
"I like hearing you say that." Chakotay smiled.
"Good," Kathryn replied, resettling herself beside him, "because if we do this, we do it together.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“One breath, one moment, one day at a time.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“To ask any parent to suffer the loss of a child is to ask more than any parent can possibly give. But to deny any individual the right to walk the path they have chosen, because we cannot imagine our lives without them, carries a heavy price. You have never known this because you have never faced this choice. You’ve never had to sacrifice anything, because of your power to alter reality to suit your whims. I understand this truth. We mortals have tried to soften it in platitudes. ‘The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.’ ‘Death before dishonor.’ In the end, nothing makes it easier to accept. I’ve given my life once for those I love, and I’m about to do it again. To have made any other choice was to grant fear dominion. Your son is a remarkable individual. Don’t ask him to be less than he is. He has made his choice.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Seven considered the cup B’Elanna held before her. When she still hesitated, B’Elanna added more gently, “I know it must pain you to admit that you are now as frail as the rest of us mortals, but trust me. I know how you feel right now. Infants come into this world knowing how to suck, cry, poop, and deny their caregivers sleep. Five days after Miral was born I hadn’t slept for more than an hour. Then my body simply shut down, and this”—she lifted Seven’s cup—“was the only thing that allowed me to survive it. Grieve the fragile human condition later, hold your nose, and drink.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Quinn had also been there, attempting to demonstrate to her the incredible ennui that accompanied immortal existence.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“You have some special expertise in sensor configurations of which I am not aware?”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“You’re going to have to do better than that.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“The multiverse is an extraordinary place,”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“She put the needs of a few of those closest to her ahead of the many.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Once in a while, it’s going to be us or them.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Sometimes there’s nothing but force that will get the job done, and the more force we bring to the equation, the better our odds of survival will be.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“I know I haven’t ‘taken a step back or retreated from a better future.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“I’m more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time. I don’t need to hurry it along.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“I’m more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“And then I look to my right and Kathryn Janeway is standing beside me. I know in some ways that should make me feel better. I mean, whom would you rather have beside you in a fight?”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Where would you even look for evidence of a reality that by your own argument can’t exist?”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“You can not fix everything. You can not fix most of what's wrong. But you can try. And it is in trying that you learn who you are.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“History has taught us that no society built upon the exploitation of any of its individuals can long endure”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“All is as it was,” she said softly to the young Q. Turning to Janeway, she added, “Humanity is a stubborn thing, Kathryn Janeway. It hopes, even when all hope is gone.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Chakotay took his hand before replying, “If you’ll permit me the presumption, I’ve never been more proud of a journey I’ve witnessed than yours. If anyone had told me the day Voyager first set her course back to the Alpha Quadrant that this is where Tom Paris would be now, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“I love you,” she said softly for the first time. It shocked her to realize she had never spoken the words until now.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“I see you’ve managed to inspire a truly frightening degree of loyalty in those you command,” she observed. “I watched you do it for seven years,” he replied. “Looks like I finally got the hang of it.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“It’s Omega?” Chakotay asked. Eden smiled bitterly. “The particle the Borg thought of as perfection and the Caeliar managed to domesticate as a power source is a pale reflection of true Omega. They were synthetic particles, corrupted by the boronite used to create them. The Omega Continuum is a discrete region underpinning the entire multiverse, composed entirely of pure Omega. It contains the destructive force required to end the multiverse, once it has run its course, and at the same time give rise to the next multiverse. It is an integral part of the eternal cycle of birth, life, and death.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother’s love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“The planet where the Borg originated,” she answered.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“How could you bear to refuse it?” Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley’s hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven’s hand. “My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering,” Seven replied.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“As a photonic being, I could easily follow Captain Eden at a brisk run and likely overtake her in the next hour. Were you inclined to take better care of yourself—and maintain a routine of rigorous exercise, like most Starfleet officers—you might be able to keep pace with me. However, I suspect even a light jog would have you panting for mercy in less than four hundred meters.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been.
What she would now be was once again an open question.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide