78 Quotes by Mandy Ashcraft

What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.

Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.

...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.

The utopian candy shell melted away to a hard center of bizarre reality.

She was fantastically beautiful, so even though her words sounded like fragile utopian glass that would shatter horrendously on Earth in about five minutes, it sounded nice when she said it.

The large office had been deliberately designed so that the two sub-terranian levels were just the tiniest bit smaller, so that the building was proudly 51% conducting honest and open business, and only 49% not. Inkle and Kelvin had felt a boost of confidence from their manufactured technicality, similar to the comfort that survey results can provide when carefully polling groups more likely to give you comforting numbers.

The doors closed behind him, and Kelvin was swallowed into the elevator shaft that took him back down to the belly of his self-made monster.

Mens formalwear is not conducive to such un-refined things as cowering in an office corner, or curling up in the fetal position on a desk.

They had not just slipped into that frigid pool, they lived there now. They didn't want a ladder.