The Object Quotes

“A dream not lived is a painful notion, but a dream lived at the expense of others is a nightmare.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Turn around and miss a cosmic millennium chance at first contact because we’re unsure? I’d rather get eaten for tweaking Moby Dick.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“It was amazing how quickly life lost its heaviness when the fear of the unknown disappeared.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“committed by the small-mindedness of human emotions, which were too often characterized by reactionism.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“They no longer have ego consciousness, if fMRI scans by researchers are to be believed, yet they are still aware of their existence.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Yeah, that’s probably about right, because all the others are from Lao Tzu.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Reluctantly, she let go of her tension and imagined a flame flickering in the void. She let all her thoughts fall into it and burn away until there was only the flame.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“distance and time merged through the speed-of-light barrier.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“It’s hard to live with yourself when you’re doing the more selfish thing, not the right thing. A dream not lived is a painful notion, but a dream lived at the expense of others is a nightmare.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Curiosity had served as her axe and everything foreign was a tree.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Peter F. Hamilton’s Armageddon Cycle,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Sleep.” Serenity nodded in Hongbo’s form. “In sleep, you disappear as consciousness. Your body stays behind and you become something else. No one guarantees you’ll wake up, and in sleep you forget the desire to wake up at all. Why should death be any different?” “I don’t know,” she admitted. “But I think it makes sense to me.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“By now they were more than 93,000,000 kilometers from Earth, so the time it took their radio signals to cover the distance was a whole 5.2 minutes. Accordingly, normal conversations were out of the question. Instead, they got the questions recorded, which took the pressure off their answers. No one could heckle them and they could think about it long enough to avoid saying something wrong. They were astronauts, not television professionals, so no one on board was sad about that fact”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“Instead, she went over the data again and again until she could recite the exact alignment numbers for the telescope input without looking, then slept for an hour to avoid spending half the night with her forehead on the keyboard again, and finally drove back up Mouna Kea. Its switchbacks twisted her through the cloud line after three-quarters of an hour, giving her a beautiful, turkey-red sunset with long streaks on the horizon for the last 20 minutes of driving. They looked like the fingers of a doomed deity clinging hotly to the Earth. The majesty of the sight plucked a chord in her that her intense dream on the keyboard of her workstation had strummed and never let go. The universe was still a fascinating place—whether out there among the stars, or down here on the blue paradise they called Earth”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“For Mel, it was hard to imagine that Earth had so quickly sunk back into the chaos of war and division, while out here in the sea of silence they were advancing humanity’s greatest discovery.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“evaluable”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object

“will not have a sequel. The idea of different perceptions”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Object