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The Big Jump QUOTES

The Big Jump QUOTES

1 " A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly. "

― Leigh Brackett , The Big Jump

2 " …For one timeless ghastly interval he thought he saw the fabric of the ship itself dissolving with him into a mist of discrete particles, he knew that he wasn’t human anymore and nothing was real. And then plunged headlong into nothingness. "

― Leigh Brackett , The Big Jump

3 " Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming. "

― Leigh Brackett , The Big Jump

4 " The Big Jump had been made. Man had finally reached the stars, and every clerk and shopgirl, every housewife, busisnessman, and bum felt a personal hysteria of pride and achievement. They swayed in dense masses across Times Square feeling big with a sense of history, sensing the opening drumbeats of an epoch in what they saw and heard from the huge news-service screens. "

― Leigh Brackett , The Big Jump

5 " Comyn thought it was funny. It was very funny, indeed, that men making the second Big Jump in history, that men going faster and farther than any men but five had ever gone before, separated only by metal walls from the awfulness of infinity, should sit and play games with little plastic cards and pretend they were not where they were. "

― Leigh Brackett , The Big Jump