Acts of Contrition Quotes

“Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“I didn’t realize you were a man of faith.” “My people have a rich spiritual heritage,” Chakotay said. “I spent many years refusing to appreciate it, but, like most truths, it found me eventually and held me.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“The captain was experienced en8gh t8 kn8w how bad relationships worked. Your gut told you from the beginning to stay out of it. You got drawn in anyway, telling yourself your eyes were open to the good and the bad. There was just enough good to keep you interested butvnot enough to allow you to commit. One day you woke up with nothing but regrets and wasted time.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“But the destruction of any starship was a shocking thing to witness. Resilient and ferocious as they might appear, she was keenly conscious of the fragile life-forms protected by the hulls and armaments. Those weren’t just ships exploding before her eyes. They were sentient beings, each of whom had families, friends, hopes, dreams, lives, until they met with unassailable force and ceased to exist in a brilliant flash of light.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“But I learned more than you know from Owen Paris. I learned that trying to live up to imagined expectations is a waste of energy. I learned that nothing can replace the time I spend with my daughter every day. I learned much too late that his way of loving me was just his way. I learned too late that he loved me at all. He chose his career over his children. He left us with you, and you are a great mom. But every day he wasn’t there was another day I spent wondering what I had done wrong and why he didn’t care enough to be with me. “My children are never going to wonder that. I’m going to be there for every birthday, every school assembly, every science fair, every bad grade, every fight on the playground, every good-night kiss, every messy, hard, frustrating, perfect moment of it.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“Everybody shows up, not to see their god, but to be seen.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“Doctor Sharak did not hear from her yesterday. He requested that I rectify that today. I came here at his request, but two hours later, my gut tells me something is wrong. I’m the one you need to satisfy now, which is bad news for you and whoever you work for. I’ve got five generations of Starfleet brass in my family tree and, unlike Doctor Sharak, I actually know how this game is played.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“You took my body and my soul, but you wanted no part of my truth.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“As powerful as her responses were, they paled in comparison to Axum’s. To be with Axum in that way was to feel his need, his hunger and his release along with her own and as if they were her own. It was the same for Axum. Her fears, doubts, and, yes, desires became his, even as they tempered his. There was nothing for them to learn of one another. Everything thought, every breath, the slightest touch moved seamlessly into the next, propelled by absolute certainty of one another’s desires. Complete satisfaction was a foregone conclusion as they moved deeper into one another, beyond their bodies and into a place where they alone existed, perpetually intertwined, woven together into one being.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He’d already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“Are you saying that as long as you are capable of bearing children, you are expected to do nothing else?” Torres asked. “What else could we possibly do that any civilized society would regard more highly?” Wentin asked. Any”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition

“Just remember, we are the first Federation citizens to set foot on this world. Our presence here is a gift to us from those who came before; those who first braved unexplored space with a desire to expand their knowledge of the universe.”
― Kirsten Beyer, Acts of Contrition