The Martian Contingency Quotes

“Worrying is part of who I am. If you don’t tell me what the real problem is, then I will invent ones in my head.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency

“The only time I got stubborn about something was when I was right. Men could do that, but heaven forfend a woman have an opinion.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency

“Valles Lucilas was just coming out of the terminator into the daylight. Leonard had named it after his mother, Lucille, when we’d gotten close enough to really see it. He’d said that it was as deep and wide as her love. The canyon was so large that if you were standing in it, you wouldn’t be able to see the other wall, and from here, it was a vast wrinkle on the surface of the red planet.”
― Mary Robinette Kowal, The Martian Contingency