💬 Quotes

"There's no law for us... we are only property, and can be bought and sold like cattle."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise."

"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."

"The Galactic Empire is falling. It is a decay that has been going on for centuries."

"Any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others."

"History is a series of events that can be calculated by the laws of mathematics, if you have enough data."

"I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I’m in a habitat designed to last 31 days. If the oxygenator breaks, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. So yeah. I’m screwed."

"At some point, everything's gonna go south on you and you're going to say, 'This is it. This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That's all it is. You just begin. You do the math."

"I'm the greatest botanist on this planet."

"If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people scream. But if you’re stranded on Mars, you sit there and you accept your fate."

"Every human being has a basic instinct: to help each other out. If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people scream. If an earthquake hits a city, people all over the world pour supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception."

"I've been to space. You haven't. So shut up."

"The only way to survive a man like Barry Kolker is to know exactly what you are. You have to be your own island."

"Learn to read, Astrid. Use what you have. You have a brain, use it. You have eyes, use them. You have a voice, use it."

"I learned that love was just another form of dependency, that it was a weakness that made you vulnerable to destruction."

"The beautiful things of the world are the ones that hurt you the most because they are the ones you cannot keep."

"She was a poet. She was a murderer. She was my mother."

"Whatever you do, don't play the victim. It’s a dead end. Nobody cares, and nobody is coming to save you."

"I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn't something about you at all. It was just you."