Wishing Stars Quotes

“Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“Without ethics, science would be cruelty.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,
My darkness is composed of him.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“You are my star and you have made me see,” he tells her, “and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her “Snow.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“Well blow me down with a solar flare.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“Manners,” I say. “It ain't polite to taste people. Shit.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“What happened out there?”

“I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon.”

“A dragon,” he repeats, scandalized. “Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales

“Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe.”
― Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales