Contact Quotes

“When you die, you’re gone. You no longer look out of your eyes, you no longer think all that pile of ego thoughts that make you who you are and have no true substance. Just like when you sleep. The only difference is that before you sleep you have the thought that you’ll wake up tomorrow and before you die you have the thought that you’ll never wake up. But the same thing happens.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“What is the greatest spectacle without an observer who makes it real through his experience?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“I choose one and put it in the microwave.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“Only their light travels endlessly through empty space and bears witness to their former splendor.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“The microwave is broken and the food is cold. It doesn’t taste as bland as usual, but it’s pretty close to disgusting. I find it a challenge to ignore the fact that it’s my own fungal, protein-enriched feces that I’m putting in my mouth with a fork.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“Distrust is something you have to earn. Until then, I prefer to live in a universe of trust.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“However, in the best times a great burden is lifted from me. Things are as they are, and what happens, happens. One realization inevitably solidifies in me. Fate is larger than I am. That I find this thought frightening seems narrow-minded then, and egocentric, because it means I see myself as the center of the universe whenever I think that way.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“But if the worst solution is the only solution, it automatically becomes the best one, right?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“I’ve known for a while now that the best time to do this is ‘tomorrow.’ Always tomorrow.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction

“I would have nothing to eat. In spite of the feces and urine, it tastes damn good. At least I can justifiably say that this is the best human excrement I have ever eaten!”
― Joshua T. Calvert, Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction