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1 " For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Fluency (Confluence, #1)
2 " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "
3 " It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe. "
4 " I’m not getting much penetration here!” Gibbs yelled.“Aim for an open mouth!” Walsh barked. “It’s their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!”Alan shouted, “For the record, I’m very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship! "
5 " Raub’s quarters were gross. They were decorated like something out of a hunting lodge crossed with a whore’s boudoir from a bad Western film. "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Inheritance (Confluence #3)
6 " He wanted nothing more than to bury his nose in her armpits and pubis, inhaling those earthy odors cached in her peculiarly scant body hair, but he couldn’t do that. He had to keep his distance. He could smell their alluring aroma, even from the other side of the wall. "
7 " The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” ―William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Remanence (Confluence, #2)
8 " You’re supposed to be the damsel in distress. We’re supposed to save you.” She snorted and pulled her hand away. “Times have changed.” “But what does that make us? Two dudes in distress? Pathetic. "
9 " He’d picked up on the structure and rules of the alien code quickly, drawing parallels to his extensive knowledge of code on Earth. He’d riffed, “It’s all just ones and zeros no matter where you go in the universe, Jane. "
10 " Our government has no interest in nearly extinct languages. They barely have a grasp on the one they use. "
11 " Warmth flooded her body and she felt her skin flush, sweat prickling her hairline. Pain dissipated to nothing but a numb, hollow feeling. Some combination of drugs seeped into her, promoting pain relief and relaxation. She felt her taut muscles yielding, even as a network of filamentous webs encased her and tugged her lower into the gel. Her arms grew heavy and sank into the gel of their own volition. Or had they been pulled there? "
12 " Technology serves life. It does not destroy it. These lessons are rooted in the very foundations of Sectilius culture and law, without deviation, under threat of penalty of strictest nature. "
13 " I have a bathroom that’s bigger than this thing,” she said in a thick, pinched voice. He grinned at her. “Sure. But can your bathroom manage twenty-five-thousand miles per hour? "
14 " Slowly turning into Darth Vader was not all it was cracked up to be. "
15 " I don’t have the finesse you seem to think I have. "
16 " You see, we—all of us—are alike at our core. From the lowest microorganism to the highest form of Sentient, we share the most basic aspects of all living things from protein folds to cellular organization. The secrets lie within the dual nature of intron and exon—expression and suppression and recombination of these—allowing life to seek infinite forms. "
17 " (Feles in Latin means cat and also thief) "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Symbiont Seeking Symbiont
18 " her e-reader. "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Valence (Confluence, #4)
19 " I know it’s okay. I’m just fucking tired of playing Princess Buttercup to your Wesley. Next time, I’m rescuing you, goddamn it. "
20 " Tinor was much younger than Jane had thought. Children were considered genderless until puberty in sectilian culture. If she spent any time with this child or any other, she’d have to remember to use the third set of pronouns, the gender-neutral set, or risk making a fool of herself. "
