Quotes from Leigh Brackett

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

I will speak to them,' he said 'with a straight tongue.

Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.

Girls without Pasts don't keep guns in their dressing rooms.

For one timeless ghastly interval he thought he saw the fabric of the ship itself dissolving with him into a mist of discrete particles, he knew that he wasn't human anymore and nothing was real. And then plunged headlong into nothingness.

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

Being convinced that reason operates automatically within him he orders his life and his government upon emotion and superstition.

And it will betray its worshipers, leaving them defenseless in the face of a tomorrow that will surely come. It may be a slow coming, and a long one, but come it will, and all their desperation will not stop it. Nothing will stop it. "I

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming.

The Big Jump had been made. Man had finally reached the stars, and every clerk and shopgirl, every housewife, busisnessman, and bum felt a personal hysteria of pride and achievement. They swayed in dense masses across Times Square feeling big with a sense of history, sensing the opening drumbeats of an epoch in what they saw and heard from the huge news-service screens.