Alien Quotes

“Kasyanov, I think I’ve made it pretty clear,” Lachance said. “Our attitude controls is damaged beyond repair, retro capability is down to thirty percent. Several containment bulkheads are cracked, and there’s a good chance if we initiate thrust we’ll just flash-fry ourselves with radiation.” He paused briefly.
“We do still have coffee, though. That’s one positive.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray,” Kasyanov said. “Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.
Hoop raised an eyebrow.
“Hey. Forever is a long time.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Level 4,” Lachance said. “Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“We’ll start a whole new human race,” Hoop quipped.
“With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen’s egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster’s face.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“quickly the fear was replaced with rage.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Hoop nodded. “Everything’s good.”
“For now,” Ripley said. “Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Hold onto your dicks.”
“We don’t all have dicks, dickhead,” Kasyanov muttered.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Oh man,” Powell said, laughing in disbelief. “Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider’s dense webbing.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.”
― Tim lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“This was a danger beyond humanity, one that had existed since long before humans even knew what the stars were.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Damn fine ship’s cat you are.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“But fairness had no place in the endless dark depths of the universe. Nature was indifferent, and space was inimical to man.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“She wore her own boots from the Nostromo. Probably collector’s items now.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“There were colleagues and acquaintances aplenty, but she was the closest thing he had to a good friend.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“These confined quarters and stressful work conditions meant that such liaisons were frequent, and inevitably brief. But”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“Home to the two boys and wife he’d run away from seven years before. One”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows