The Lost Starship Quotes

“People are most concerned about the pebble in their shoe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Maddox knew the importance of appearing confident. Never let them see you sweat. That intimidated opponents and bolstered allies. Right about now, his crew needed all the encouragement they could get. Lieutenant”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“I refuse to let someone’s reputation defeat me, only his actions.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“All life is a risk, Lieutenant. We have to play the hand we’re dealt, not the one we’d like.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“If we’re doomed, as you say, why not strive with every fiber in you to defeat the night? Why go quietly down to death? Let’s fight oblivion together. Let’s fight to live longer and do more than simply quit. If you admit defeat, the game is already up. If you strive, well, who knows, maybe we’ll produce another wonder.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“was right. “Good work, Ensign,” Valerie said.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“scent of her perfume.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Maddox knew the importance of appearing confident. Never let them see you sweat.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“One of the representatives wore a long robe and a scarlet headscarf, a sheik-superior from the Wahhabi Caliphate, a Muslim star empire. The second envoy, with a great handlebar mustache, represented the Windsor League, a combination of British, Canadian, Australian and Indian colony worlds. The last was a Spacer, a small woman with dark features and short hair. She symbolized the confederation of traders and industrialists with no fixed abodes other than their starships.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“If the enemy were gods, he had to become a godslayer. This”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“There were times when it was wiser to let a person argue a point with herself.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“The higher one went here, the less funguses and hot bacterium there was.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“As a great philosopher had once said, “People are most concerned about the pebble in their shoe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“us. You’re in the same craft. The New Men are hunting for us, meaning they’re also hunting for you. What will you do as they close in? You must come to your senses before they trap us, and you, for good.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Wearing perfectly pressed trousers and shiny boots, Captain Maddox of Star Watch Intelligence flexed his bare chest. Muscles like strings of steel writhed upon his lean frame. He gripped a viper stick, swishing it back and forth, so the spectators murmured uneasily.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Never let them see you sweat. That intimidated opponents and bolstered allies.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“canopy.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“The Lost Starship”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship