Velocity Weapon Quotes

“Being offended by facts is a long human tradition.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“We must be better than a codified system,” Sanda pressed. “What good are our laws if they cannot be reexamined to better fit the needs of our present society?”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“Accidents of geography: setting perfectly ordinary people at one another’s throats since the Stone Age.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“Major Greeve? She raised her brows at him, but he kept his face perfectly neutral. It seemed they’d given her a posthumous promotion. She wondered if anyone regretted that now that she was decidedly humous.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“This world, this universe, is more complicated than that, though I wish it could be otherwise. But that complexity should not mean that no action is preferable by default.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“She dropped her head against the display. Let the goop run down from her hair, the cold glass against her skin scarcely registering. Numbness suffused her. No wonder Bero was empty. He must have been ported outside the destruction. He was a smartship. He wouldn’t have needed human input to figure out what had happened”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“After wiping up the dishes with a microcleanse, he joined her. Forearms against the edge of the table, he hovered over his food as if it were a specimen for dissection. She pushed images of Kenwick’s head, flayed and floating, out of her mind. Tomas hadn’t done that. Didn’t work for any part of Icarion that had anything to do with it”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“The lights came up in hab 1’s research lab and stopped Sanda cold. Bero had told her that his purpose was as a scientific station, and that was evident enough. Equipment she only vaguely recalled the names of from long-forgotten academy courses dotted the room—mass spec, gastrometer. Implements of surgery extended from the ceiling over a suspicious-looking table, shiny steel on articulated arms”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“You’re . . . kind of the face of that, Speaker Greeve.” They put a slight emphasis on his last name, and that subtle direction dragged at him like a weight. Of course they’d come out to see him, the man who’d beamed his face into all their homes to claim the heroes of Dralee could be recovered, if only they tried to talk to Icarion. To open the paths to peace”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“Oh my god. They taught you emoticons.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“Someday he’d like to get used to being wrong. Then maybe he’d start being right.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“For Sanda, the wound of grief was scarcely scabbed over. All she had to do was graze it with a thought to start it weeping again.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“The first thing Sanda did after being resuscitated was vomit all over herself. The second thing she did was to vomit all over again.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“My fault,” Biran said smoothly, placing a hand between Jessa’s shoulder blades to guide her to a seat behind the desk.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon

“How greedy she was, to keep that blood inside her when the others had spilled so much.”
― Megan E. O'Keefe, Velocity Weapon