The Kaiju Preservation Society Quotes
"If you wonder if you did it enough, do it again."
"It’s a determined bloodsucker that makes it all the way in."
"You have to, because how could you not, right? You can’t pretend you don’t know."
"We’re not called the Kaiju Preservation Society just because it’s a catchy name."
"But the same billionaires who are racing each other to get to Mars are bankrolling us."
"It’s like I said, nuclear energy thins the dimensional barrier."
"You’re wondering where the native produce is."
"It’s only until we get to the base proper. That’s two hundred meters."
"I really don’t know what to make of this place."
"It’s tradition here when we swap out our lodgings that we leave a note and a small gift for the new occupant."
"It feels like too much of my life has been unreal. Imaginary."
"I hope you will care for it like I did, and that it gives you joy as it did for me."
"This is a precis on all the biology of the kaiju that we understand so far."
"The kaiju don’t break physics because you can’t break physics."
"You have to remember is that the kaiju have a biology that is utterly unlike anything we have back home."
"I decided my room would be nicer with some green in it."
"The last Gold Team geologist decided to retire after we basically had to reattach a limb. For a second time."
"Everything here eats their own, including kaiju."
"It’s not meant to kill them, it’s meant to get their attention."
"It was never designed to succeed. It was designed to sell."
"I was mostly thinking about how Satie was going to be annoyed with us."
"Kaiju Earth is a socialist paradise, Mr. Sanders."
"We think we’re smart, and because we think we’re smart, we only looked at what we wanted to look at and didn’t think to look past it."
"You want to be helpful, I have some things you can deliver for me. Heavy things."
"I’m listening to you complain about the aerostats like you knew they even existed six weeks ago."
"No, they all record locally if they can’t connect."
"We can’t get the data from the instrument packs."
"We’re not the only ones with access to the aerostat feed."
"I need you not to talk to anyone else about this yet."
"I’m going to let it run. Hopefully they don’t find it."
"Bella and her eggs did go through the dimensional barrier."
"If we lose the feed from the aerostat, we can’t get the data from the instrument packs."
"That’s what I mean. Time means almost nothing over here."
"It’s possible Bella is either hiding in our blind spot, or maybe her tracker fell off in it."
"We need to know what happened to our people."
"I’m just still trying to figure out the logistics of this in my brain."
"But no matter what, it stands to reason that if no conditions on this side of the dimensional barrier have changed enough to get Bella and her eggs through, then something on the other side did."
"I’ll get the Presidential Medal of Freedom for this shit."
"A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever."
"It’s unreal how real this world is and can be."
"It’s not karmic justice, it’s just bad people and bad luck."
"We all need a pop song from time to time, particularly after a stretch of darkness."
"We’re not thinking about that old thing anymore? Because I have this other thing."
"I’ve said before that she is the reason you have books from me at all."
"I can’t write this novel I am full of angst and pain what even is my career anymore."
"You aren’t going to tell them anything. None of you are. You’re going to leave this to me."
"I’m so sorry. Last March. When you were fired. I didn’t tell you. I should have warned you."