Quotes from David Gerrold

It suddenly struck me-this was HARLIE showing off what he could do, his way of impressing everybody, his way of convincing people that he could handle complex problems that required a lot of fast processing.

Hella is only a little dangerous. On a scale of one to ten, with ten being instantly fatal-like the surface of Luna, where I've never been, but I've read about it-Hella is only a three, which is equal to some parts of Earth. It's safe to go outside without protective gear if you stay out of the sun, if you keep your breathing steady and shallow, and if you don't drink any water you didn't bring with you.

I don't know why people think adventures are so wonderful. Mostly they hurt, they're boring, and they're dangerous.

There was something very strange about the way he was super-polite to us, and then turned raging-beliigerent to invisible people on the other end of the phone, What he was shouting looked an awful lot like the kind of stuff that couldn't be fixed-that the people on the other end wouldn't forgive.

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

This is where you must each make a prayer to Saint Vladmir-" We were at the final hatch. "Saint Vladmir…?" "I made up. He is the patron saint of smugglers. I smuggled him to heaven. Now let's see if he is appropriately grateful.

Humans haven't been on Hella long enough. We can vaccinate ourselves against the things we know are out there and all the things we think are out there, but we can't protect ourselves against all the things that might be out there that we don't know.

I might be fired, but I still have friends.

How can we run away with you when it's us you've been running away from all this time?

I didn't know how Douglas and Mickey felt about the news, but the Earth seemed so far away now it didn't matter anymore. Maybe that was the wrong way to feel, but that's what I felt anyway.

Well, that sort of settles that. The younger generation has come of age. All that's left for us old broads is to find a nice warm grave and get someone to throw some dirt over us.

presumptuous—but he's got to he with someone

I was standing on the longest tightrope ever. A suspension bridge between a rock and a planet. Caught in the middle, between Mom and Dad, Weird and Stinky. Not a child, not an adult, but something in-between.

Jamie says we're the most dangerous species on the planet. Especially to each other. That's what happened on Earth and if we're not careful, it'll happen here. Jamie didn't figure that out for himself. He was telling me what he overheard Captain Skyler say about Councillor Layton, Marley's dad. Mom doesn't like the Councilor for a different reason. She thinks he's a bad parent.

It wasn't just a choice between Earth and the stars because that's a no-brainer. That part was easy. The hard part was that Dad was asking us to choose between him and Mom.

Two remarkable towers. And beyond that, she became something

I was getting awfully tired of all the ranting, no matter who it came from.

If it wasn't for Jamie staying with me all the time, I don't know what I would have done. He says it was hard because he knew what Mom wasn't telling me, but that's when Jamie and I started being friends.

With all due respect to this court, we've had to deal with so many other monkeys in so many other courtrooms, we felt it was only appropriate to bring in our own, so we could compete on equal terms.

Civil disobedience does not disregard the entire body of law, it challenges only a specific application of the law as unjust with the intention of removing it from body of the law, because the function of the law must be to provide access to justice.

the proper study of humanity is humanity itself. History is not just old news. It's people.

If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.

Somebody took my hand in his. It felt like Dad's hand. Large and warm and safely enveloping. I knew it had to be Douglas holding my hand, but it was nice to pretend it was Dad for a while.

You were listening to the music as deeply as anyone I've ever seen. I was so happy for you that day-because you'd discovered something all your own. And I was so glad it was something I could give to you.