Starshine Quotes

“We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“She had missed him for a while, missed his warm smile and tender yet expert touch. But she had also welcomed the absence of the invisible leash which had tugged her back to Earth more often than she liked, which had whispered of duties to another and required explanations and justifications for every excursion. And eventually even the good memories had faded into the background, replaced by the thrill of new endeavors.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”   — James Thurber”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“He simply preferred the sensation of soil beneath his feet and wind in his hair, of fresh, non-recycled air which carried on it the scent and taste of life. He preferred what was solid and real, where if you could see it you could touch it, feel its texture between the tips of your fingers. As far as he knew, no one had ever touched a star. Not even her.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her: freedom, and the key to the marvels of space. It gave her the stars, and she doubted she could ever love anything or anyone more than she loved the stars.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“In the space of a breath he had crossed the distance separating them and spun her around into a vise grip from behind. Somehow, the gun was out of her hand and in his. He locked her arms between them and raised the gun to her temple. His voice resonated low and dangerous at her ear. “Just so we’re very clear. If I want to kill you, I can kill you.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“convincing act of being friendly and nonthreatening? Of course he was convincing. It was his job to convince people he could be trusted until he was ready to kill them or arrest them or dispense whatever justice he fancied upon them. Because he was a good cook? While a rather nice surprise, it hardly qualified him for ‘friend’ status. Because he was disturbingly good looking, with hair as black as the void between stars which”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Keep an eye on this readout while I try not to crash into any sudden mountainous objects.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“kill him, this would likely end with him making it back to settled space in one piece. Therefore, other than ensuring she felt enough goodwill toward him to not throw him out the airlock—which seeing as she had gone out of her way to rescue him in the first place, he suspected was a fairly low threshold—he really didn’t need to play her. He had been trained to always be looking for an opening,”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“No…you can ask for a beautiful, witty, intelligent yet minxy woman in your arms every night, a mansion on a hill—or better yet in the sky—and the best bodyguards to protect you when someone does inevitably try to kill you. For starters.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime lords. Spies, gangsters, assassins, insurgents and wannabe-revolutionaries. True believers and soulless mercs willing to kill children for the right price.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“I don’t suppose you can tell me what the hell is going on here?”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“No, mostly he was curious about what this woman—mechanically savvy and with undeniable flying skills, acerbically sharp, ill-tempered, caustic…and rather stunning in an uncommon, confounding way—was doing piloting it, much less who she might be.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” — James Thurber”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Combat was messy, violent, terrifying, costly and tragic”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Which was interesting, seeing as he allowed very few people to know many truths at all about him. Special circumstances and all. Alex crashed onto her bed, relishing the sensual, almost carnal feel of her head sinking into the silky pillow. After several deep, luxurious breaths she glanced up, and promptly scowled. The viewport above the bed often revealed twinkling”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine

“Not to worry, I'll take care of it. It's what I do."
He decided it was best to leave when I'm not blowing up three million credit spaceships and two dozen terrorists with them unsaid. After all all he fully intended to try to return this ship in one piece.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Starshine