Vonda N. McIntyre QUOTES

1 " ...if he lost consciousness still telling me to do nothing, I'd have to let him die. You say yourself he's rational. I have no right to go against his desires. No matter how stupid and wasteful they are. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake

2 " The patterns the whales used for communication, the three-dimensional shapes, as transparent to sound as solid objects, could express any concept. Any concept except, perhaps, vacuum, infinity, nothingness so complete it would never become anything. The nearest way she could try to describe it was with silence. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Superluminal

3 " They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake

4 " Pick something else".
For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre

5 " Saavik gazed calmly at the viewscreen. She was aesthetically elegant in the spare, understated, esoterically powerful manner of a Japanese brush-painting. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

6 " How can I tell her to be glad she's alive, when she knows she'll never walk on the desert again, or find me a diamond for some patron's earring, never gentle another horse, never make love?"
"I don't know," Smoke said. "But if you and Alex see her life as a tragedy, that's what it will be. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake

7 " And then Snake saw the craters, stretching away across the desert below her. The earth was covered with green circular basins. Some, lying in the path of the lava flow, had caught and broken its smooth frozen billows. Others were clearer, great holes gouged in the earth, still distinct after so many years of driving sands. The craters were so large, spread over such a distance, that they could only have one source. Nuclear explosions had blasted them. The war was long over, almost forgotten, for it had destroyed everyone who knew or cared about the reason it had happened. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake

8 " Her people, like all the other people on earth, were too self-centered, too introspective. Perhaps that was inevitable, for their isolation was well enforced. But as a result the healers has been too shortsighted; by protecting the dreamsnakes, they had kept them from maturing. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake

9 " The drive to convert people's minds and hearts has caused more grief, more suffering, more loss of life than any desire for property, riches, or even the necessities of survival. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

10 " She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Starfarers

11 " Vulcan. A desert world, limited in material resources, yet limitless in the intellectual and philosophical achievements of its inhabitants. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

12 " A few paces away, Spock paused. He looked up into the deep sky. "I have been …" he said. At his strained and tortured voice, Jim moved instinctively toward him. " … and always shall be … your friend. . . ." "Yes," Jim whispered. "Yes, Spock." Spock half turned. "The ship," he said. "Out of danger …?" "You saved the ship, Spock. You saved us all! Don't you remember?" Spock said nothing for a moment. He cocked his head, as if listening to some far-away inner voice. He arched his eyebrow and slowly faced Jim Kirk. "Jim," he said softly. "Your name is Jim." "Yes!" Jim's voice broke, and he caught his breath. Spock nodded once, briefly, as if acknowledging to himself that he had found the proper path. He glanced at McCoy, and then at the others. "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

13 " James T Kirk: Mr.Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Montgomery Scott: Certainly, Sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? "

― Vonda N. McIntyre , Star Trek III: The Search for Spock