The Road to Roswell Quotes

“Say you’re in the middle of nowhere, nobody for miles and no hope of rescue. You sit down and start playing solitaire and somebody will immediately come along and tell you to play the red eight on the black nine.”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“All that means is that the movies couldn’t care less about getting the geography right.” “Or,” Lyle said darkly, “it means it was in different places. Maybe the aliens move it around.”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“Con man?” he said, stuffing the brochures back in the duffel bag and zipping it up. “Absolutely not. That’s a legitimate policy. I’ve sold hundreds of them, and not a single policy holder has ever been abducted by an alien.”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“Hosbitaii may have originally evolved from plants, they don’t consider our plant life as having consciousness. Apparently the Hosbitaii attempted to communicate with a prickly pear when they first landed, with predictably bad results, and Indy apparently spent a half hour trying to convince a Joshua tree to drive him to a tsurrispoinis before he abducted you, so the Hosbitaii have decided that plants are too far down the evolutionary scale to count. I got the idea they’re annoyed by that, as if their own side had let them down.”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“Watch the skies!” —The Thing from Another World”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“Trust no one. —The X-Files”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

“Now, that’s what I call a close encounter.” —Independence Day”
― Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell