You always think you can make it up to somebody – later, you know.’ She took a deep breath. ‘But now I never can. I never can.
He stood on the sand watching the double sunset as first one and then the other of Tatooine’s twin suns sank slowly behind the distant range of dunes. In the fading light the sands turned gold, russet, and flaming red-orange before advancing night put the bright colors to sleep for another day.
I do not ‘gallivant,‘” Truzenzuzex commented primly. “I plan in haste.
He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn’t expected the alien to be so completely alien.
Crazy thing is, it’s all real. The Jedi, the Force – it’s true. All true.
I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.
She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.
I got a bad feeling about this.” –.
It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.
This is the deep-space commercial tug Nostromo, registration number one eight zero, two four six, en route to Earth with bulk cargo crude petroleum and appropriate refinery. Calling Antarctica traffic control. Do you read me? Over.
Get away from her, you!
I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me. Especially when it’s filled with noises like that distress call.
You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them killing each other for a percentage.
As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality. Once.
If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.
This time she was sure she managed a grin. ‘I can’t figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren’t supposed to be optimists.’ ‘Yeah, I know. You’re not the first to point it out. I’m a freakin’ anomaly.
I’ve found that most people do a lot of talking and they wind up not saying very much. Especially adults when they’re talking to children. It’s kind of like they enjoy talking at you but not to you. They want you to listen to them all the time, but they don’t want to listen to you. I think that’s pretty stupid. Just because you’re small doesn’t mean you don’t have some important things to say.
The trouble with computers, she thought, was that they had no intuitive senses. Only deductive ones. You had to ask the right question.
It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.
There was no reply. That in itself was encouraging. They trudged on, Luke stealing admiring glances at her when she wasn’t looking.