I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.
1.21 gigawatts!!!
Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.
The frothy bubbles had frozen in the cold air and almost freezing water, making what looked like a tiny model of a galaxy: a fairly common spiral galaxy, like this one, like hers.
Here’s how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, thems formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself.
The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square.
The shadow square was a looming absence. It was as if a wet cloth had swept across a blackboard, erasing a swath of chalk-mark stars.
“Usually she looked all bright and sunshiny, but the dark stones captured something else in her, the shadows flitting across her face and along the curve of her collarbone.”
That’s the thing about heroes. No matter how brightly you shine the light on them, they always want to stay in the shadows.
Flash! Ah-ah
Savior of the universe!
Flash! Ah-ah
He’ll save everyone of us!
Flash! Ah-ah
He’s a miracle!
Flash! Ah-ah
King of the impossible!
He’s for every one of us
Stand for every one of us
He saves with a mighty hand
Every man, every woman
Every child, it’s the mighty Flash
“I don’t want to fight you, Flash.”
“I wouldn’t want to fight me, neither.”
"Hearken to the data. Flash! High Council Suspends Covenant! Under the Emergency Situation clause of the Covenant an unprecedented Action-in-Council was announced today directing the Administrator to detain and question all members of the so-called Howard Families-by any means expedient! "
But since I’m here, what is your emergency, exactly?
Anne Reynolt had been a young woman when the Emergency came to Frenk. If history were written by the losing side, her name would be legend.
“Do you know your Bible?’
‘Uh, not very well.’
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.”
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Here’s some advice. Stay alive.
—-U 2!—— 
In play:
“HUDSON! This little girl survived longer than us with no weapons and no training. Right?”
Fight and survive… Love life! Too many people would rather be dead than be embarrassed or soiled. That is very foolish. Life is a brilliant and wonderful adventure. Never throw it away, and never hide from it.
Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.