Selected Quotes Nov '22
Posted on 05 Dec 2022 @ 3:18pm by Commander Calliope Zahn
QUOTIDIAN JOYS
So many posts bring us regular reading pleasure! People sent me lots of great quotes from our November work, and they’re all here!
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"Heart-mother?" Ayalou didn't comprehend. The translator had rendered the word in the literal as there was no standard equivalent.
"Yes. We are born of her heart and not of her body. We are her heart-daughters."
Heart Daughters
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Esazi signaled for the comm to be cut before the freighter captain could reply. She chuckled softly as she watched him do his best impression of a silent film star, cursing her up and down without the sound on.
Newly Arrived and Already Behind
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Sometimes you have to look inside the lost wallet to find the home address.
Space Bauble - pt 3
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“But I am such a reasonable fellow”. He gave Jilek a grin, leaned in the hatchway and opened a maintenance pane…
In the Land of the Fraj-Senni
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Atif returned to the cockpit, sitting in his chair he let the autopilot complete their journey. As the adrenaline drained away his eyes were repeatedly drawn to the elongated bloody hand-print on the windscreen. The afternoon sun had dried it to a muddy brown stain.
He wanted to land again and wash it off, but more than that he wanted to wash away the gaze of raw hatred from the man who had left it there.
In the Land of the Fraj-Senni
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"Is someone trying to play jokes on me?"
"Insufficient information to formulate a response."
Breaking Stone to Sand
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“Debowski is a fool,” Henri announced, appearing in the knot of people as suddenly as if he’d grown from the floor. “He couldn’t direct a sock onto a foot and make it believable.
Good Decision, pt.1
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“Dump him and go find an empath. Every woman should have at least one empath lover in their lives. The way they read your thoughts and adjust immediately. Phenomenal.”
Good Decision, pt.1
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As the doors opened behind Lance, he wanted to growl with frustration at yet another over-eager engineer here to 'lend a hand' and was about to snap at them when he saw Calliope instead and felt the wind leaving the sails of the USS Foot-in-ass.
8-Bit Wonders
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"Mister Tilmer." She acknowledged the Ensign handling a tricorder and what looked like a pool testing kit. Tilmer returned a nod. "How's the water?"
"Salty, ma'am," he returned. Calliope thought she saw him smirk slightly under his wispy mustache while casting his own side-eye at Commander Quinn before adding. "But not too salty."
8-Bit Wonders
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Now Rice did it. And the best part is, he didn’t do it to win me back or something stupid like that. So now I’m going to do it. What’s the worst thing that could happen?”
Dae-Jung began counting off on his fingers, “Space amoeba, a Crystalline Entity, causality loops –”
Good Decision, pt.2
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"I don't understand, they hate me. Why would you say they worry about me? I'm nothing to them."
"Because you wear the uniform." Jai spoke. "It doesn't matter if they like you or hate you, it matters because you, like them, have taken the oath that comes with that uniform. As such, even if they don't like you they look out for you. Sometimes even the simple issues or problems can be spotted by an outside source."
A Helping Hand, A Troubled Mind
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“If what you are going to say next has even half the whiff of coercion, you won’t wake up tomorrow, Mister Brek.”
“Rest assured: I’m not as foolish as I look. Here is what I propose: take it or leave it as you please.” Here, Brek lowered his voice. “In exchange for an agreed amount of latinum, you may, at your leisure, spend time with Nyasha whenever you want.” Thitur gave him a murderous ‘who-do-you-take-me-for’ look, and Brek promptly added: “You know, to chat with her. In plain daylight, here, in the gallery, with tea and crumpets.”
“Crumpets?”
“Or biskits... biscuits, whatever you like, Senator.”
The Great Ancients
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The “Terrifyingly Delicious Diner - Meals From Every Quadrant"
There Are No Rules
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“I honestly don’t remember her name. But she didn’t eat the soup. Worse than that she pointblank refused to have the soup even be put on the table in front of her. Complained about some sort of allergy.”
“You have to eat the soup.”
“You have to eat the soup,” Rice parroted in agreement. “If the choice is death or soup, you eat the damn soup. As nasty as it is.”
“Raw baby eels. Not the best of Cardassian cuisine.”
Follow Your Spirit
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How old was his interlocutor? He has no idea. Anything between 40 and 50. But he would never say that aloud. You mistake the age of a woman at your peril.
Swamp Fever
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"Sure," Bayre said. "Best if I'm prepared for all strategies and if you can come up with a reasonable plan of attack, the Faraday's Security Chief will owe you a bottle of good scotch."
"I do like a challenge," Hawkins purred. "Almost as much as I like good scotch."
Newly Arrived and Already Behind
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"It’s not totally quiet out there, but it's close enough that the Klingons would be at our throats out of the very boredom you’re trying to circumvent. Then again, their administration of the Protectorate might incite unrest that keeps them busy.”
“At least it wouldn’t be my problem anymore,” grumbled Hatsue, folding her arms across her chest with the sulkiness of a child denied candy.
“What happened to seeing the Protectorate as a parallel to Japan?” Limmi chuckled.
“I realized my ancestors wizened up a hell of a lot sooner.”
Moving Along
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