Adult Science Fiction Quotes

#1. When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?"
I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. "When will you learn that it's up to you if you play those parts or not?

Shelly Crane

#2. Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.

Logan Keys

#3. Dirck's mind hadn't stopped racing since the arrest. Why were the only dreams that came true nightmares?

Marcha A. Fox

#4. 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.

Arby Robbins

#5. Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories ... as well as mine.

Megan Duke

#6. When the mind is free, magic happens.

C.G. Rousing

#7. But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

Maureen A. Miller

#8. The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

C.G. Rousing

#9. Dirck closed his eyes and tried not to laugh. Win, the dauntless rebel who'd dodged lasoclear blasts without a flinch and thought nothing of invading highly classified government records with treasonous intent, was afraid of the dark.

Marcha A. Fox

#10. Give me the breath in your lungs, all the steps you took to get here, the only heart you got, your very soul. I want all there is, Soph.

Shelly Crane

#11. I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street."
"You don't get scars."
"Emotional scars then.

Amy Tintera

#12. I can't - won't do that to him," Summer says sharply. "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 this is real.

Laura Kreitzer

#13. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Siobhan Davis

#14. I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

J.Z. Colby

#15. You'll regret that, Bourkan.

T.S. Pettibone

#16. A layer of fine powder coats his skin.
"My lungs are turning to concrete," Rob wheezes, hacking and spitting.
"So are my eyes. How do I always get roped into these things?" Avery coughs and pats Rob's back in sympathy. A poof of dust billows from the contact.

Laura Kreitzer

#17. He could have a break at last, albeit a short one, one he sorely needed. And with that appealing thought he further squelched the subconscious screams, true message lost in the deceptive world of emotion and will.

Marcha A. Fox

#18. I couldn't help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel

Victoria H. Smith

#19. He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.

Megan Duke

#20. He gazed deeply into my eyes. Placing his hand to my cheek, he caressed my skin with his fingertips. "Ariel, you have a strength that cannot be hindered by anything. A strength that I admire greatly." - Luca

Victoria H. Smith

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

Pittacus Lore

#22. JOH! Thank God I found you."
"I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Maureen A. Miller

#23. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.

Lindsay Anderson

#24. Jen's emotions, strong but invisible within an infallible Miran facade, raged with contempt. He'd met the man responsible for such despicable exploitation of his brother's life onboard the Aquarius. He didn't like him then.

He hated him now.

Marcha A. Fox

#25. [Psi waves travel far and wide
Faster than the speed of light
Limitless is their domain
Time does not their rate detain.]

Marcha A. Fox

#26. If you are human, there is no hope.

Rick Yancey

#27. Hold the question in your mind, but lightly, like it was something alive.

Philip Pullman

#28. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books.

T.S. Wieland

#29. More likely they'd already been identified by the transponder code required on all privately owned vehicles. They were as good as dead.
"Hold on," Win said. "I know how to lose these guys."
With that he set him mouth in a grim line and banked sharply toward the canyon.

Marcha A. Fox

#30. They passed the point where they'd made their previous retreat, but this time felt no urgency or fear. For some reason the dubious energy field was gone.

Marcha A. Fox

#31. But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings.

S. Elizabeth Dover

#32. He said that people don't make mistakes, they just make a learning curve for everybody else.

Shelly Crane

#33. I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.

Siobhan Davis

#34. Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#35. (D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

Beth Revis

#36. After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn't stop. It changes. And it changes me.

Caroline George

#37. Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Laura Kreitzer

#38. The chamber grew suddenly silent, the only other person with first-hand knowledge of the matter staring pensively at the floor.

Marcha A. Fox

#39. The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

Dan Wells

#40. The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.

Michael Monroe

#41. It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Steven J. Carroll

#42. Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement

Alex Lane

#43. While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#44. 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.

Rick Yancey

#45. Dead at twenty. To die here on a strange planet I'd never seen and without any friends or family. Except for an alien named Garran.

Kalli Lanford

#46. Just in case you're wondering," Gage says, breaking the silence, "this alliance of ours doesn't mean I like you."
"Feeling's mutual." Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Laura Kreitzer

#47. It's been a pleasure pleasing you.

T.S. Pettibone

#48. When he flashed that rockin' smile of his again, I couldn't help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel

Victoria H. Smith

#49. It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Siobhan Davis

#50. There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn't sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I'd given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm.

Shelly Crane

#51. He licks his lips as his head tilts down toward me. My body goes wild. Frissons of electricity travel up and down my spine as the True Born leans down. His voice is silk in my ear. 'You're not with your parents now. No restrictions. How does that make you feel?

L.E. Sterling

#52. I stare into the ruggedly handsome face, the eyes alight with a vast intelligence and that eerie, unearthly power. He's beautiful, so haunted with power it takes me a second to realize exactly what position Nolan Storm has put me in, and by extension, my family.

L.E. Sterling

#53. I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

Amy Tintera

#54. I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Carlyle Labuschagne

#55. I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed.

Chess Desalls

#56. Dirck bolted to his feet and peered out the window. It wasn't a storm. It was worse. An armored transport had stopped outside. Seven commandos, maybe more, stepped from its confines, each in shielded yellow armor, hostile in Zinni's searing light.

Marcha A. Fox

#57. Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There's no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is empty with no memory to mend it.

Laura Kreitzer

#58. You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that."
"That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

Amy Tintera

#59. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.

Seraphine Abrams

#60. The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#61. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.

Henry Mosquera

#62. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

Brittany Hawes

#63. Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.

T.S. Pettibone

#64. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

Leot Felton

#65. A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

Orson Scott Card

#66. Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.

Marcha A. Fox

#67. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.

Laura Kreitzer

#68. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?

Sharon Sant

#69. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

Kev Heritage

#70. He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.

Heidi Tankersley

#71. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn

#72. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

Tyffani Clark Kemp

#73. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

Caroline George

#74. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#75. She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.
He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

Laura Kreitzer

#76. Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?"
"I wasn't," he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."
Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did."
"I'm an idiot."
"Yeah, you are."
"Shut up.

Laura Kreitzer

#77. Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Robert Reed

#78. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.

Rick Yancey

#79. I have to admit, Tanner can be a smart kid. You know, when he's not too busy being completely useless.
(Ryland Ascunse)

Douglas Pershing

#80. But before either of them could move a sudden blast of energy shattered the car's rear window, sending glass fragments soaring through the morning air in a lethal wave of sparkling terror.

Marcha A. Fox

#81. Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

Shelly Crane

#82. You didn't tell Summer about it, did you?"
"What?" Gage scoffs. "Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Laura Kreitzer

#83. Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it's beautiful.

Shelly Crane

#84. Moonlight cast its gentle light before her, highlighting everything from the burgeoning garden to where cut alfalfa lay in wakes of swerving shadows. She kicked through it thoughtfully, remembering the first time.

Marcha A. Fox

#85. ... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

Jenny Lynne

#86. I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.

Megan Duke

#87. She was born of space.

And starlight.

But she bled wrath.

And vengeance.."

[From Current Work In Progress]

Jenna Streety

#88. Since cristobalite amplified and focused psi waves, understanding and reason were quickened to peak performance.

Marcha A. Fox

#89. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Henry Mosquera

#90. I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.

Megan Duke

#91. The Freaks are coming.

J.O. Young

#92. What's a Laster? A dead man.

L.E. Sterling

#93. You should've told me," she repeats. "Because here's a news flash: You might've wanted to shelter me, but there's nowhere you can hide me that'll keep me safe from what's inside my head.

Laura Kreitzer

#94. Dirck's thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn't there or she'd die, too. He shuddered to think of how she'd feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He'd never see her again and there was so much he wanted to tell her. Now he'd never have a chance.

Marcha A. Fox

#95. Oh, God ... you're so beautiful," I said in a weak voice, my head enchanted. He smiled at me and turned to the thin, elderly lady next to him whose skin seamed with wrinkles."She must still have a fever," Victor said, fighting a smile, which just made him even more breathtaking.

A.B. Whelan

#96. He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

Sharon Sant

#97. When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

Sully Tarnish

#98. Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

Alex Lane

#99. When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

Terri Windling

#100. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.

R.W. Rivers