#fiction

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#nightmare-fuel #science-fiction #steven-moffat #science

Мы будем делать Добро из Зла, потому что его больше не из чего делать. ↗

— Arkady Strugatsky

#science

You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up, Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?" And I looked around and said, Who me?" And he said, "The higher you fly, the faster you fall." He said, "Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#philosophical #science-fiction #love

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void... ↗

— William Gibson

#science

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy. ↗

— John Marsden

#safety #science-fiction #science

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#science

Let the Hunger Games Begin! ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#science

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #choices #fiction #horror

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#science

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all? ↗

— Jim Butcher

#science