Front grace in the shadows

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.

When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for...

To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection,...

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

Ce te înnebunește nu vine din tine. Nici din mintea, nici din sufletul tău. Ce te înnebunește te înconjoară. Rigiditatea. O rigiditate care te apasă, te sufocă și te mistuie între cer și păm nt....

We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. – Adrian

I learned as a kid that homo sapiens would rather fight other homo sapiens than microbes. For one thing, it’s easier. And there’s something satisfying about knowing somebody else is the bad guy and seeing...

People say, ‘Time heals all wounds.’ That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too.” -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941

I believe you to be Filidor Vesh,” said the dwarf.”You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded,” Filidor replied. “No doubt you will wish to search further for this Vesh, rather than impose your presence...

You are, what you do, when it counts.

Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren’t real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can’t trust that any of...

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

For chocolate’s sake!

No, look, there’s a blue box. It’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it’s meant to go. And when...

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock...

Depends on who’s winning the war.

I’m already under the covers when he comes in. I watch as he takes off his shirt and jeans, and climbs into bed beside me. On any other occasion, the sight and feel of his...

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.”–Mea Brin, The Huntress

It takes wisdom to know when you’ve had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys’ game.

i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light

We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered…

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Where have all the Fembots gone?

[“The Devil in the Dark”] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many...

Truth or dare…truth ain’t fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell – Belle Starr: Dead Man’s Hand (work in progress)

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

What lies beyond the wormhole … is the devil incarnate.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don’t stop. Don’t try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it.” narrator Charles Yu, not...

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.

There’s so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.

She’d crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

No,” he said, “look, it’s very, very simple … all I want … is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen.” And he sat. He told...

It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that’s left now is the end, which is...

Gods do not decide who goes to Heaven or who goes to Hell. That is for the Cosmic Forces to decide. You are as close to being like a God than you ever will be....

He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn’t dare trust them. The wound of betrayal still burned raw in his chest and...

The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity...

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

You go, girl!” smirk right back. I think of CK, how he and I often sat like that. Not because we were seconds from making out or wanted to look like a couple, but just...

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering...