Grimspace Quotes
"Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing."
"What the Unit Psych calls dream therapy, I call torture."
"There are prisons without bars and worlds without sunlight."
"We’re just going to have to run like hell toward the nearest outbuilding and pray."
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
"I feel like I need to make her sacrifice worthwhile."
"If there’s a ceremony or something, let’s do it because I will not put up with keeping someone enslaved."
"When humanity first visited La'heng, we did not greet them warmly."
"It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
"I’m not having this conversation with you, Jax. Not now."
"You have no idea how many people I’ve ended. Broke minds to set an example, for the hell of it, or just because I needed a quiet kill."
"I will never let anything happen to you, not now. You’re one of mine, whether I like it or not."
"Size doesn’t matter much to a navigator. Interface is everything."
"You’re the soul of masculine mystique. Better?"
"I understand," I manage through an aching throat.
"I wanted you to be the cocky, care-for-nothing nav-star we saw on the holo. That woman, I could’ve despised. But…you’re not. Maybe you were, I don’t know. But that’s not the woman I see now."
"Both agree the Mareq should be left alone. The Corp, however, take that stance because they believe the Mareq don’t possess anything that would benefit them."
"You got some stones, bwoy, askin’ me for a favor."
"As I watch her, I think this ritual surely harks back to our Lady of Anabolic Grace, whose very name symbolizes the sanctity of change."
"I say we go, too," March puts in. "You and Dina vote against?"
"We can’t survive a hit like this—there’s no way—"
"Don’t you dare leave me, Jax. Don’t you dare."
"I’m dying for a shower. Doc, you wanna grease March up?"
"It’s been a long damn time since I heard anything like that."
"How is that different from what happens when you lead?"
"As far as I know, no one’s ever raised a Mareq outside its own habitat."
"With us, he doesn’t need to worry about actual physical protection."
"Ground control, this is the Sargasso. I’d like you to double-check the suggested trajectory and coordinates."
"Our goal is complete self-sufficiency, a settlement free of Corp influence, free from artificial cred-based commerce."
"I’m neither brave nor heroic, but I’m not dying here."
"I’m tired of being pushed and pulled without my volition."
"You get used to it. And occasionally you run across something you can do to try to brighten up the dark places."
"I want to make my own choices from here on out, not do what someone else tells me."
"I didn’t want to piss him off while he was recuperating."
"But I guess I’m one of the rare ones after all. I can let it go."
"I’m tired of people keeping secrets from me, tired of not being sure whether I’m even working for the good guys."
"There’s nothing scarier than seeing space with just a few centimeters of poly-metal alloy between you and horrible asphyxiation."
"In my survival training, we learned never to run from a predator; it just makes it think you’re something that should be chased."
"Nothing like adrenaline to cure what ails you."
"The trouble with geniuses; most of them seem to lack anything like a sense of humor, so they’re forever 'clarifying' for other people when they were, in fact, being smart-asses."
"Jump-travel has a way of lagging the shit out of your biosystems."
"You’re just jealous you didn’t get me while you had the chance."
"Sometimes there’s nothing worse than the truth."
"Greed’s going to be the end of me, but done deal."
"Every scum-sucking lowlife he’s captured has probably begged and pleaded, professing his innocence."
"All I wanted was to die. Why didn’t you let me? You still get paid."
"I wanted him to die. I wanted the whole world to die."
"Once in a while, a man would like to rescue the woman he loves. You can’t keep saving me."
"You don’t need to be afraid of falling when there’s someone around to catch you."