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Legacy
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Marcus Emerson1,072 ratings, 4.65 average rating, 12 reviews
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“Three kids against five robotic school helpers. Well, four kids. Beck was still in the air vent under locker G42. His Tenderfoot Shell waited patiently, standing in place at the middle of the dead-end corridor in the girls’ locker room. One of the five SPUDs that had us cornered leapt through the air at Bloom. The world around me came to a standstill, like someone had paused a game. I saw Bloom. I saw the SPUD jumping toward her. I saw Lexi, huddled up and afraid. I don’t know what happened to me in that split-second, but I reacted before I even had time to think about it. Balling a tight fist, I threw my hand into the air in front of the SPUD that was going for Bloom. My right forearm scraped against the small robot’s face, and then my elbow shot forward, landing a blow right on the SPUD’s body, sending his arms and legs flying in all directions.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“Holograms? Yes. They’re practically built into our everyday lives. The Holo Pen is an example of that. It’s more of a stylus, which is a fancy way of saying “stick.” It’s our “everything” device.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“Stupid ideas don’t seem so stupid when you’re about to go through with the stupid idea. Really stupid ideas shine brighter the second they enter your brain.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“When you’re in the air, floating through clouds, nothing can hurt you. You’re as free as a bird, drifting aimlessly as the wind sifts through the hairs on your arms and legs. You’re not tethered to the Earth by the invisible villain known as gravity. And it was in that moment that I realized how two-dimensional my world had been. I was like a square that had somehow become a cube. The sky was above me. The clouds were right next to me. And the roof of the school was below me. Yep. I had graduated from humanity and become one with time and space, seeing the past and the present and the future all at once.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“Chapter One Outside Buchanan School. 7:50 AM. Stupid ideas don’t seem so stupid when you’re about to go through with the stupid idea. Really stupid ideas shine brighter the second they enter your brain. Like, “Hey, man, you prob’ly shouldn’t do what you’re about to do!” I like to think of a field of kittens when that happens… makes it easier to ignore my common sense. Ahhhhh… field kittens. My name is Max… and I was about to do something really stupid. The air smelled of freshly cut grass as birds chirped from trees full of leaves. I took a deep breath as I stalled, hoping a meteor would crash into the planet so I wouldn’t have to go through with the thing. Kids just getting to school lined the sidewalk, curious about what was happening. I squeezed the handlebars of my bike, listening to the sound of tightening rubber under my fingers. “Max, you okay?” Beck, my best friend, said from somewhere. I didn’t know where exactly since fear was making everything blurry. I shook my head to clear the fog. “Never been better,” I said. “Are… are the thrusters working?” It took him a second to answer. “I’unno. I never tested ‘em.” I nodded bravely like a hero who was about to meet his maker. “Nice.” It became blazingly obvious that the world wasn’t going to end anytime over the next few seconds, which meant I was gonna have to perform the stunt that everyone was waiting to see. The stunt wasn’t anything crazy – just a kid jumping his bike over the bike rack filled with other bikes. In front of the bike rack was a cement lip that curved at the bottom, making a nice little ramp that everyone joked about jumping their bike off of. I was about to be the kid that did it. Easy enough, right? Well, my buddy, Beck, thought it’d be epic if I attached some thrusters to the back of my bike. No rocket fuel or flames – just a couple of cans of ultra-compressed air that would fire when I flipped the switch. It was a rig he built himself – that was kind of Beck’s specialty. Jumping the rack was a stunt that I’d been working on for weeks. I knew I wanted to do it because of all the kids who hadn’t done it before. And I was gonna nail it, and the whole school – no, the whole school district – no… the whole city was gonna talk about it when it was done.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“I was a daredevil. I mean, I wanted to be one. The only problem with being a daredevil was that you had to be fearless, and at that moment, sitting on my death-cycle, I was drenched in fear. So I was kind of a daredevil wannabe. Not poser. Wannabe.”
― Legacy
― Legacy
“Cool,” I said, and then turned back to Patrick. “What do we owe you?” “Monies,” Mochi spouted. “All your monies.” “Nothing,” Patrick said. Mochi’s”
― Legacy
― Legacy
