MOTE Quotes

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“I felt it as a G-force that building pressure that starts in your chest and spreads outward, reminding you that you have mass and the universe has more.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“I know the ship's sounds the way a person knows their own heartbeat not consciously, until something changes.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“But the longing was there. That inexplicable human conviction, older than language, that the stars are not simply out there that they are, in some way that resists articulation, home.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“People just need to be near other people when something has happened that is too large to process alone.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“A world that was struggling was not the same as a world that was unsalvageable.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“His grandfather had told him once that the hardest negotiations were the ones where everyone in the room was right about something. You couldn’t win those. You could only find the path that preserved the most of what mattered.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“The moment when the silence ends is always different, but the look on people's faces when it does that is always the same too.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“They had learned, in the deep places, that the light was worth waiting for.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Out here, the connected stars are far enough apart that between bursts, there’s time to think, time to sleep, and time to write.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Peace for a hundred years was too big to ignore in a world where there had never been peace.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES