Blackest Ocean Quotes

“After three steps, Icky stopped, leaned to the left, and released a thunderous belch that filled the air with the subtle fragrance of a car air freshener designed by someone with clogged sinuses. It was… memorable.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“In the end, I decided I’d rather get to know this remarkable—woman, is how I thought of her, even if she wasn’t human. The alternative was to hang onto bitterness and recrimination, and life was too short for that.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“The reunion was brief, polite, and had all of the danger you’d find at a Methodist pancake breakfast.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“Underestimating bad guys is never a good idea,” Lunzy agreed.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“I was struck by a sudden image—Icky, wearing sunglasses, her voluminous hair all wind-blown as she cruised down the Pacific Coast Highway in some vintage convertible. In truth I needed to see that. I made a note to buy her a convertible at the soonest opportunity and keep it on the farm for her initial cruise.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“Van, let me put it to you this way. Out here, there are only three types of people—allies, enemies, and the dead. My advice? Always try to be the first one.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“I found myself suddenly wishing that everyone on Earth could see this. What a difference it would make to the way humanity viewed the universe—and itself.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“The mothers’ faces fell like the curtain on a failed Broadway show.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“simply turning into an impact crater and”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“not”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“Passivity is a decision, of a kind.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“And your mother was a scumbag criminal kingpin, but we don’t judge you based on that.” Icky blinked. “Point taken. I’ll shut up now.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“Frisky? You consider that frisky? I’d hate to see what you consider unusually violent,” Torina said.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“released a thunderous belch that filled the air with the subtle fragrance of a car air freshener designed by someone with clogged sinuses.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“which is illegal under Interstellar Commerce Protocol Five.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“twisting doesn’t involve a trajectory between two points in space because ships don’t actually travel the intervening distance. Rather, it involves geometry. And there is an optimum twist geometry that relates any two points, that includes things like the gravitational effects of intervening masses such as stars, as well as the effects of time,”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“It would be called determinism, I guess. That everything that’s going to happen is predetermined.” “Randomness is inherent in the fabric of space-time. Quantum effects cannot be predicted. That alone renders such an idea invalid. That your species would even struggle with this is… truly fascinating.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean

“Soul. Yes. Whatever it is called, it was not deceived by my belief in the rightness of what I was doing, even if I’d managed to deceive myself.”
― J.N. Chaney, Blackest Ocean