Alien Quotes

“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.”
― Clark Ashton Smith

“In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Level 4,” Lachance said. “Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Hoop nodded. “Everything’s good.”
“For now,” Ripley said. “Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.”
― Tim Lebbon, Alien: Out of the Shadows

“You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It’s always an encounter.”
― Jack McDevitt, Thunderbird

“The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.”
― Roland Burrage Dixon, Oceanic Mythology

“You can’t fathom the alien mind.”
― Adam Christopher, The Burning Dark

“It was killing him, seeing her this way. She was not meant to be uncertain, timid or fearful; the woman he knew exuded confidence so fiercely it might as well be a damn spiritual aura. He needed to fix this.

“It’s time to adjust your perspective. You want to show the politicians on Earth they don’t rule the galaxy? Well, let’s show them.”
― G.S. Jennsen, Sidespace

“You look nervous.”
“I’m ... a little nervous.”
“You’ll be fine. You’re pretty. You’re alien. You’ll trend well.”
― Chuck Wendig, Aftermath

“When she sat down on the tile next to him, unafraid, his kaleidoscope senses drank in the years that had been printed onto her mind before she was old enough to remember, and he told her a story, projecting into her darkness sensations of light and color and shape, butterflies swirling like silk-spun gold out through a window that opened to a big green field in the days before the bomb.”
― Mel Paisley, Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

“To have been possessed by something so awful and so alien, and then the next morning wake up from it, remember what happened, and realize what I had done, with a clear mind and all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact at that moment, [I was] absolutely horrified that I was capable of doing something like that.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Your fancy alien train is broken?"
"My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running.”
“You are a sad, bitter little man.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.”
― L. Ashley Straker, Connected Infection

“Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me”
― Earl Lovelace, Salt

“You ever see a cute, furry alien?”
― James A. Moore, Alien: Sea of Sorrows

“we roar along the rust belts——the great red spot——
the polar vortex——the caress of solar flares——
ruffle the molten methane and ammonia oceans of me——
the storm-riven non-surface of me and mine——
that which you call skin——
a threadbare term to describe where I stop and others begin——”
― Yann Rousselot, Dawn of the Algorithm

“In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...”
― Nathan Walsh

“It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness respond to her. She felt as if she could see the spaces between molecules in the air, like atoms themselves had become a thin fog, and for the first time she could see the true shape of reality looming up just beyond her reach.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“I don’t see anything,” Miller said. “What’s it look like?”
“The eye of an angry God?” Elvi said.
"Oh,” Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. “Yeah, well that’s probably it, then. Good work.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course.” One minute he’d been practicing his swing, and in the next—phzzt—a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him.”
― Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance

“Dave had been fun when they’d first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, turning him from Mr. Right to Mr. Wrong.”
― Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance

“It’s you,” she murmured, staring at his eyes, a fine, dove gray.
He smiled. “Of course, it’s me. Let’s get you back to your boat.”
― Cheryl Sterling, Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong, Mr. Alien: A science fiction short story romance

“A woman with long, blonde hair stood for a moment on the other side of the door. She looked similar to his date. Was she entering or leaving the coffee house?
Before Paul could confirm her identity or stand and run after her, she strode away and disappeared in the crowd.”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the Girl in the Rain

“A woman stood on the sidewalk, her arms outstretched and her face turned to the sky. Sheer enjoyment splashed across her features, its intensity tugging at his heart. It was a raw emotion he rarely witnessed.”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the Girl in the Rain

“What mental hospital have you escaped from?” She wanted to laugh, but he looked so serious. “Prove you’re an alien. Rip off your disguise. Show me your antennae. Where’s your union card?”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the Girl in the Rain

“Vivi stood and crumpled the report. “Who’s the CEO at Slakerian?”
“Jakes Echabarne,” her assistant said, not glancing at any notes.
“Arrange a meeting.” No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the CEO

“Jakes nodded his dismissal. “Workable. Set up a meeting.”
Mitchel stood. “Who would you like to send, sir?”
He smiled. “Ivy, I’ve neglected my duties as commander of The Baldain. I’ll transport down to Earth and handle this matter myself.”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the CEO

“Kidnapping is a harsh word.”
“But accurate. I assume you’re not going to hang around Mars until I fix the software bug, if a problem ever existed. I’m on a one-way voyage to Slakeria, right?”
― Cheryl Sterling, The Alien and the CEO