The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown Quotes

“the line between love and hate is so fine, so paper thin, that being in love is always one step away from madness.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“In the big, wide universe, the real question is this: How did Homo sapiens sapiens, a relatively small subclass of sentient beings, manage to become so enormously divided?”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“Most other creatures in the universe have no concept of hope and can go on living without it. But humans need hope as much as they need air or water or food.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“I feel sorry for them—human beings, not bugs. If their brains were just a tad bigger, they might make an admirable species—they might even be happy. But as it is, humans are always fighting endless battles to change the things over which they have little or no control.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“I have observed humans a long time through my superspectrum x-ray telescope, seeing into their homes, into their bodies, and into their lives. I have written numerous reports documenting their behavior, and I have come to be something of an expert on the human species on my own planet. And there is one thing I have learned about humans that in all my studies I find to be true: human beings are rarely ever happy.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“Unfortunately, their wedding, which was to be a cause for celebration, took a tragic turn when, during the reception, Esmeralda Fincus realized with horror that young Jason Fincus was missing. Search as the wedding party might, Jason Fincus would not turn up again for twenty-one long years, or forty-three long years—depending on your frame of reference.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“The energy was very much like the prickly excitement of the first day at summer camp or a freshman dormitory on move-in day. The sense of camaraderie that they all shared that first night would evaporate over the months and years to follow and be replaced by a cold formality more befitting the passengers of an airplane or guests in a hotel lobby. If you walked into the commissary forty years from then, you would get the sense that the passengers knew nothing about one another, or that perhaps they all knew one another too well and had nothing left to say.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown

“The tables were crowded and warm, and the room had a lively sense of camaraderie about it, an artificial camaraderie fostered by the strangeness and isolation of space and of having survived a traumatic experience together.”
― Nicholas Ponticello, The Maiden Voyage of the Destiny Unknown