Top 53 Tim Lebbon Quotes
#1. On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.
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#2. Level 4," Lachance said. "Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.
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#3. I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
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#4. She had already contacted her Peacemaker to ensure that everything there was as it should be. Ironholgs had spat and buzzed as if annoyed at being disturbed, but all was well. She yearned to be back in the ship, alone.
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#5. Right then, the future was barely an hour long.
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#7. It's still a great time for adventurers.
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#8. Pain was a difficult concept to conjure in memory, Hoop had said. Like tasting the best cake ever. Such thoughts only really meant anything when the tasting-or the pain- was happening.
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#9. I realised that everyone and everything out there had a story, and that most stories would never be told.
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#11. At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.
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#12. She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.
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#13. The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.
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#14. Oh, so slimy bastard shithead had been a lecturer?
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#16. How are things on the edge of space?
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#17. Baby, this is why we came here," Curt breathed into her mouth. "It's romantic." He turned her, one hand on her
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#18. Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.
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#19. We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped.
"With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.
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#20. Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.
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#21. Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.
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#22. Oh man," Powell said, laughing in disbelief. "Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?
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#23. Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.
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#24. Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray," Kasyanov said. "Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives.
Hoop raised an eyebrow.
"Hey. Forever is a long time.
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#25. Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.
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#26. Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.
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#27. To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.
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#28. Hoop nodded. "Everything's good."
"For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.
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#29. Marty coughed and spat a dark mass. Tears burned his eyes. The darkness grew darker. "No... help me!" And then
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#30. Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.
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#31. Hold onto your dicks."
"We don't all have dicks, dickhead," Kasyanov muttered.
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#32. Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
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#33. Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider's dense webbing.
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#34. Music, and moonlight, and love and ro...mance." he sang softly to himself, tapping some computer
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#35. The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.
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#36. Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.
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#37. She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.
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#38. I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed?
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#39. Voyaging great distances
through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains
is all about finding ourselves.
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#40. All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.
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#42. Androids were never meant to dream.
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#45. He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.
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#46. Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.
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#47. Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.
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#49. Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.
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#50. Alchemy should have no part in a Je'daii's experience. It is a dark force, arcane and dangerous. It has the power to upset balance. There are other ways.
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#51. If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.
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#52. Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.
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#53. Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.
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