Nisa

First Appearance: The Big Race Page 2

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Well, now, when you're a poor little orphan foster wretch, anything's possible. Or so we tell ourselves.'
The Big Race Page 2
Behold. The Ninja ZX-11.'
The Big Race Page 3
The thing that scares me most of all is that it burst out from the jungle directly in front of our ambush position. It had killed Jensen and Lucca before we knew what was happening. Nothing that large should be able to move like that.'
The Big Race Page 8
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.'
Free To A Good Home
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.'
The Big Race Page 11
With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can't see anything at all.'
The Big Race Page 12
The secondary gyrodyne relays of the propulsion field intermatrix have depolarized!'
The Big Race Page 23
Que l'enfer que tu trouveras soit le fruit de ton insouciance.'
The Big Race Page 25
Well, like the good book says: payback's a bitch!
The Big Race Page 28
I brought you something blue... me...
The Big Race Page 31
Kiazi's children. Their faces wet.
The Big Race Page 32
Embarrassment factor, 91%! Advised repair schedule; reboot startup disc, offline for 36 hours and replace head. Boy! What a night!
His Thinking Cap
You're no Superman. "The ladies say otherwise!"
Questions You Mustache Yourself
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.'
The Most Important Favor Page 3
That's right! I am no more or less than myself. I am me! I want to be myself!
The Most Important Favor Page 4
First you must ingest some fresh-squeezed blorg, or perhaps splut-wingx! And wait until you see the pordkins. They are as big as a florknock!
The Most Important Favor Page 5
Something's coming. Something hungry for blood. A shadow grows on the wall behind you, swallowing you in darkness. It is almost here.
Weirder Dealies Pt 1
I thought it said 'liberate me,' 'save me.' But it's not 'me.' It's 'liberate tute me' - 'save yourself.' And it gets worse.
Weirder Dealies Pt 2
Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect.'
Let39s Bee Friends Again
Old age, she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough."
200th Update Spectacular
We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.
A Cold Case Page 2
What's the matter, robot? You got a rod up your spine? "Yes, I do. That's how I'm built."
A Cold Case Page 3
I love the bitter stink of smokepowder in the morning. It smells like… victory.
Adventure Part 1
No, there were a good many things they didn't teach me. Like the value of a good game of chance. Or how indulging in fantasy keeps the mind creative.
Adventure Part 2
Examine now the man of strength and action: he is never led by destiny. He drives on a decided course, manipulates the variables, and instead of submitting to the ordained shape of his life, creates a pattern to his own design.
Adventure Part 3
I'm so glad you're my partner in crime.
Adventure Part 4
Aren't you the one who always says a little suffering is good for the soul? "I never say that."
Quetzalacatenango
You make it sound so creepy. "The unknown always is."
Pommel Horns Are Good
We're still flying. "That's not much." "It's enough."
We Dont All Need Hats
When in the course of human events somebody does something that puts somebody else to the trouble of adjusting the numb routine of his life, the adjustee is resentful. The richer he is and the more satisfactory he considers his life, the more resentful he is at any change, however minute. And of all the changes which offend people, changes which require them to think are most disliked.
Inescapable Part 1
The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.
Inescapable Part 2
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
Inescapable Part 3
Do you ever have times when your heart's suddenly struck with the feeling, "Now, now something must happen!"
Inescapable Part 4
The pen is mightier than the sword … if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Inescapable Part 5
I shall be taking you to Old London Town in the country of UK, ruled over by Good King Wenceslas. Now, human beings worship the great god Santa, a creature with fearsome claws and his wife Mary. And every Christmas Eve, the people of UK go to war with the country of Turkey. They then eat the Turkey people for Christmas dinner, like savages.
Happy Holidays
I hate to crush a boy's dreams, but... what the heck!
Inescapable Part 6
He thinks we're playing a game while's he's fighting a war.
Inescapable Part 7
Excuse me, can you help me? I'm a spy.
Inescapable Part 8
Well it's all your bull crap. All them Battlestar Earth plastic drink cups. "Don't you touch those! They're in mint condition, and they're going to stay that way." "I'll touch them all the way to the trash, that's what I'll do."
Inescapable Part 9
Would you describe the accused as a friend? "No, I'd describe the accused as a git."
Inescapable Part 10
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Messages Pile Up