Blue Sky Quotes

“With his panic came the slow, spreading realisation that he didn't need her. He was so used to dependency that it had taken a good long while for it to skin in, but--ding, lightbulb--she wasn't carrying him, and with this versatile new body under his control there was nothing she could do that he couldn't do himself. He had the hang of it now--he'd just proved it, he'd come all the way up this tunnel and he hadn't even fallen once. He could even run.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“...she first looked worried and then burst out laughing at his dumbstruck, goggle-eyed expression, and then stepped back so that he sagged helplessly down against her, and kissed him on the mouth.

He had absolutely no idea what she was doing at first, but apparently there was some sense, some kind of protocol, built into this impossible totally completely impossible new body and somehow it did, because before he knew what was going on he was doing it as well, and back and--

It was somewhere in the middle of this--right bang in the middle of their very first, gloriously fiddly, uncertain, awkward, amazing kiss--that the full meaning of what Chell had just, actually, said finally slammed into Wheatley's battered, overloaded mind. It was a toss-up as to which factor did it--the kiss or the words--but it was probably a combination of both.

He made a small, shocked sort of noise, and passed out.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“She was warm and so close that he could feel her heartbeat, and he knew for an absolute inarguable hard-coded fact as he listened to it race, strong and alive, against his chest, that he needed her, he would always need her. Rails or no rails--legs, thumbs and everything else, no matter what, he would always need her, and suddenly this didn't feel like such an awful thing at all.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“To save him, she would fight just as hard as she'd fought for her own freedom, for the lives of everyone on this side of the portal--and not out of moral obligation, not out of any need to defy Her or prove a point, but because of the warm growing brilliant bewildering thing they'd barely begun to touch over the last week, the relief and happiness she'd felt with him on the hilltop, the heartsick ache tangled inextricably into the idea of never seeing him again.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“It wasn't bad--none of it was, really, the good stuff and the unexpected stuff, and it was amazing how much fit into both categories, like the moment when she'd touched his face with her small, able hands, or when she'd fallen asleep on his chest in the long grass and he'd felt her breathing, deep and content.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“It's nothing, it's a false alarm. Just a lot of fuss over nothing, it's got to be. We'll laugh about it later.

Oh, he really, really wished he was a better liar.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“She'd laughed--silently, but he'd felt that too. Sight was his absolute favourite sense, and out of the four-and-a-bit he had, it was definitely the one he'd miss the most if he ever lost it again. But just then he'd found himself thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad, not being able to see. Not if he could feel things like that.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“Being this close to her felt like standing right next to a grenade that might or might not have a pin in it, except where your average grenade was full of regular, boring old explosives, this grenade was packed with a stunning fireworks display. It might still take your eye out, if you were right at ground zero, but it would be worth it.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky

“She was a law of his universe.

She had become a constant, an undeniable truth--gravity, matter, inertia, entropy, and Chell--and he could no more resent her than resent the fact that time ran forwards. He might wish he was more like her, but he wasn't jealous of her--only resentful, in his usual scattershot way, towards whatever had made her a rock and him--well, something so very un-rock-like. Jelly, possibly. Washing machine fluff. Blue yoghurt.”
― Waffles, Blue Sky