Top 100 Fiction Scifi Quotes
#1. Idrith didn't want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down.
Michelle Frost
#2. I'm going home." - Celeste
"To never return?" - Uway
"Yes, show me the way to never return." - Celeste
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Almney King
#3. I have a hard time trusting a person without a couple of murders on his record, Mr. Draedax.
Henry Mosquera
#4. A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into the dark. Panic seizes him, and he takes off after her, regardless of the chaos brewing behind him. Her cry of surprise echoes all around them, drilling into his bones.
Laura Kreitzer
#5. Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.
Only one got off a shot.
G.S. Jennsen
#6. The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality.
Alex G. Zarate
#7. Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void.
-Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project
Daniel P. Douglas
#8. We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins.
E.J. Koh
#9. We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger than you.
E.J. Koh
#10. Is this neuro-bot really supposed to be her, this creature, this thing, compiled of the ghosts of human data, the replicas of their past?
Bremer Acosta
#11. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
Destinee Hardwick
#12. The alien reached out her hands to hold Alex's tightly. "Please. Some of what I want to express, it may be difficult to locate the right words."
"Of course."
Pure alabaster eyes stared back at her. "Child, there is a hole in your mind.
G.S. Jennsen
#13. Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.
Forrest Carr
#14. This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.
Henry V. O'Neil
#15. I couldn't shake Zander's beady red eyes or the noise of his pounding wings behind us. His hot breath and foul stench reached for us, but couldn't catch us as we soared above liquid green fields in the Realm Beyond.
Dianne Bright
#16. The Novoloume gazed in interest around the cabin. "So the whispers are true - Kats, SAIs and Humans have come to join with the anarchs in a quest to save us all."
Felzeor returned to Caleb's outstretched arm and leaned in to nuzzle his nose. "What a grand quest it's sure to be!
G.S. Jennsen
#17. You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.
E.J. Koh
#18. Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.
E.J. Koh
#19. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#20. A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.
E.J. Koh
#21. The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark robe flapping wildly around his legs, they bobbed their heads in fearful deference.
Michelle Frost
#22. Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.
Forrest Carr
#23. My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.
Yelle Hughes
#24. Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."
"There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths.
G.S. Jennsen
#25. I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared ... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!
Meinos Kaen
#26. Frankie runs a sex moon and has kids. My head hurts just thinking about it. You still keep up with her, too, then?"
Ryelle's face took on a hunted expression. "She sends me coupons, Declan.
Michelle O'Leary
#27. Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.
J.D. Jordan
#28. I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
Kurt Vonnegut
#29. Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow
Stewart Stafford
#30. The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.
Chris Dee
#32. You have a job?"
"Do you think I just fucking run this ship so I can call myself captain and get laid?"
"Well, no. I thought you were a criminal.
Pippa DaCosta
#34. He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched.
E.J. Koh
#35. Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.
Jaleigh Johnson
#36. Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart. - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.
David Sloma
#37. Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy's cheek. "Unless someone's bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You'll want to strap into the jump seats.
"This could get interesting, and that's before we get clear of the station.
G.S. Jennsen
#39. He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.
Laura Kreitzer
#40. Love?' Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn't it?
E.J. Koh
#42. Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#43. The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.
E.J. Koh
#44. In the corner of her eye she caught her daughter's shoulders drop as Alex exhaled with uncommon soberness. "So you trust me, and you understand that I will never do anything I think might hurt you."
Miriam stopped outside the armory and pivoted to her daughter. "Alex, what have you done?
G.S. Jennsen
#45. Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind
Eve Masters
#46. She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.
Meg Howrey
#47. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.
Henry V. O'Neil
#48. Why won't you look at me?" she murmurs.
He doesn't speak, seemingly at a loss for words.
"It's my scars." It comes out as barely a whisper.
Horror spasms across his face. "What? No," he says, a bit breathless. "You're beautiful. All of you.
Laura Kreitzer
#51. If you believe in yourself never doubt your abilities.
William Brazzel
#52. Alone for a few precious seconds, he drew in a deep breath. He stood on a ruined street in a ruined city. Destruction stretched for kilometers in every direction, all caused by a single man for whom vengeance had devolved into madness.
G.S. Jennsen
#55. Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.
E.J. Koh
#56. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.
Anna M. Aquino
#57. It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
G.S. Jennsen
#58. One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings
Timothy Zahn
#59. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#60. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?
Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.
G.S. Jennsen
#61. You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing.
Meinos Kaen
#62. Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back.
Henry V. O'Neil
#63. Good science fiction has its roots in good science.
Dan Brown
#64. Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See
no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.
Arthur C. Clarke
#65. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#66. They're only askin' you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain't exactly reluctant."
"F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?"
"Uh, wait an hour?
Michelle O'Leary
#67. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#68. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.
E.J. Koh
#69. You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#70. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#71. To read is to live inside a new world...
R.L. Henry
#72. Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Paul Di Filippo
#73. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."
'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'
He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"
"I'm ready, too.
G.S. Jennsen
#74. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#75. I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
Pippa DaCosta
#76. Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
G.S. Jennsen
#77. You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life.
Henry V. O'Neil
#78. The red was something none of them could contain.
E.J. Koh
#79. Science is no longer fiction,
but Reality may become one.
Natasha Tsakos
#80. Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#81. Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."
"I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them." Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.
G.S. Jennsen
#83. Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog.
Michelle O'Leary
#85. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?
Dan Brown
#86. Love can provide strength when intellect can find no reason for it.
Susan Waterwyk
#87. It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character."
"I don't even know what that is!"
"Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.
Girl Vs Monster
#88. He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary - you've got that, right?"
One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely.
G.S. Jennsen
#89. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#91. Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
Robin Sacredfire
#93. Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.
Brodi Ashton
#94. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#95. It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
Clyde DeSouza
#96. They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.
Anna M. Aquino
#97. To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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