Dead Silence Quotes

“It sets off a strange sense of dislocation in my brain. Like it can’t be real. Or I’m not. But maybe that’s just because of the dead princess floating in the corner.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Somehow I suspect that “third time’s a charm” does not apply to narrow escapes from death.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“once you’ve been in a position to watch everyone you’ve ever known die, the light go slowly out of their eyes, transforming them from this magic assemblage of quirks, habits, preferences, and dreams to an inert pile of spent flesh and bone, you realize not only that life is precious but also that death is absolutely inevitable. No matter what you do. The people you love will die one day, and sometimes it happens sooner and faster and more horribly than”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“If you don’t like the answers, ask different questions,”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“But I make myself push on, keeping my gaze focused ahead. There’s nothing to be gained from looking back.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Space travel is boring. As a commweb maintenance team, we’re used to it. A boring day is a good day. Boring is what we strive for. When things are exciting, someone is usually about to die in some new and horrible way.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“His existence has neat edges, sharp lines, with no shadows or uncertainties.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“But I will say this: once you’ve been in a position to watch everyone you’ve ever known die, the light go slowly out of their eyes, transforming them from this magic assemblage of quirks, habits, preferences, and dreams to an inert pile of spent flesh and bone, you realize not only that life is precious but also that death is absolutely inevitable. No matter what you do. The people you love will die one day, and sometimes it happens sooner and faster and more horribly than you could imagine. Sometimes it’s even your fault.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“in the end, I suppose that’s what it comes down to. What you can live with or what you’re willing to die for.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“I’ve been told I have a “cavalier attitude toward mortality.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“do no harm but take no shit.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“it is unhealthy, obsessive anxiety. Another of my diagnoses? Compulsive need to control. Not others, necessarily. But myself and the situation around me.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“His T-shirt, one of his favorites, reads SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE in big letters, with an arrow pointing down to his crotch. Voller smirks at me, giving me a mock salute.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“I know, I know,” Kane says under his breath. “I’m doing the best I can.” He pauses for a moment. “No, she won’t. I won’t let her.” He is talking to someone who isn’t there. “Kane?” Lourdes asks through her sniffles. “Is she going to be okay?” “I don’t know,” he says. “I need…” He trails off seemingly mid-thought. “I need…” “Well, are you sure this is even the right Claire?” Lourdes asks. “She’s over there, too.” A whisper of fabric against fabric traces her movement as she stands. “Claire. Wait, come back!” We are all going to die.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“That’s Princess Margaretha of Sweden,” Nysus says quietly. The gold faucet on the sink across from her catches my attention, and a pang of ingrained longing hits hard. It’s both smaller and more dramatic in reality. The gold gleams in our helmet lights, the name Aurora carved in dark swirling letters on both sides. It sets off a strange sense of dislocation in my brain. Like it can’t be real. Or I’m not. But maybe that’s just because of the dead princess floating in the corner.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“69 hours”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“once you’ve been in a position to watch everyone you’ve ever known die, the light go slowly out of their eyes, transforming them from this magic assemblage of quirks, habits, preferences, and dreams to an inert pile of spent flesh and bone, you realize not only that life is precious but also that death is absolutely inevitable. No matter what you do. The people you love will die one day, and sometimes it happens sooner and faster and more horribly than you could imagine. Sometimes it’s even your fault.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Surviving is nothing to be ashamed of, Claire.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“People can only need me so much before that button inside me is pushed and I have to walk away.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Kane makes me feel like somebody. He makes me feel. Jesus. Is there anything more powerful, more dangerous than that?”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Shit happens. Sometimes even to you. Sometimes even if you can’t remember it.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“When the odds are stacked this high against you, you take the peace you can find.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“He’s not, as far as I can tell, antisocial exactly. He just prefers to spend his time alone, connected to us by technology rather than physical proximity.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“Somehow, I always knew it was going to come back to this. Me. Alone with the dead.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“On a previous tour, one of my team members, Gerta, posted a sign in the head over the toilet—“There may be no ‘down’ in space, but there sure as hell is one in here. Aim, please.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“On the monitor, a ship floats on the perpendicular to us, like a shiny metallic wedge of lemon in the dark tea of space.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“My whole life I’ve wanted nothing more than to be out here. Away from everyone. That is the beauty of space. There’s nothing out here. Sure, stars, planets, and communication beacons, but no people.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“once you’ve been in a position to watch everyone you’ve ever known die, the light go slowly out of their eyes, transforming them from this magic assemblage of quirks, habits, preferences, and dreams to an inert pile of spent flesh and bone, you realize not only that life is precious but also that death is absolutely inevitable. No matter what you do. The people you love will die one day, and sometimes it happens sooner and faster and more horribly than you could imagine.”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

“detritus”
― S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence