Mars Evacuees Quotes

“The fact that someone had decided I’d be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“I was only playing the Getting Around as Much of the Spaceship as Possible Without Touching the Floor game", said Carl later.
"Oh," said Josephine, who had been trying to kill Carl using only her eyes and brain for the last fifteen minutes. "You were just playing. In the ventilation system. Which carries certain gases that we breathe. Like sleeping gas. And OXYGEN.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“Something occurred to me on the way. "Does your dad know you've got his his flask?" I asked Josephine.
"Yes, he's probably worked it out by now," Josephine said.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn't a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“Then Captain Mendez called us inside. He was probably about forty or so, but I had a sort of impression he'd looked rather younger when we started out.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“Now, this was supposedly so we could all learn from each other and so the Colonel could comment, rather than for the purposes of ritual humiliation, but the army's good at doing two things at the same time.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“If you didn't want me to build flamethrowers, you shouldn't have taught me the basic principles when I was six," said Josephine. "It worked well.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees

“But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.”
― Sophia McDougall, Mars Evacuees