I'LL BE BACK - SEE I'M HERE with Sci-fi Quotes and a hook that needs a polish

I could have done 10 quotes from TERMINATOR

Today is the Top Ten Horror and Science Fiction Movie Quotes Blogfest hosted by Ellie Garrat and iZombie.  


In space no one can hear you scream . . .but in blogland they can. Why not sign up and on the 6th February count down your top ten horror/science fiction movie quotes? Do ten for each, a mixture, or just one category. It's up to you!  


This has been a busy weekend, and the busy keeps on coming because I'm supposed to be improving my hook and pitch for Brenda Drakes - Dark and Stormy Blogfest Contest but I've just finished a SF MG and started to experiment with SF adult too so it would rude not submerge myself in Sci-fi and find my favourite quotes.


Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. ~ Kyle Reese Terminator


Step up to red alert. 
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb. ~ Rimmer & Kryten, Red Dwarf


Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless. ~ Yoda  Empire Strikes Back


Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realise how precious it is. How dear to us. ~ Dr Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)


If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.~  Morpheus The Matrix


The universe is composed of infinite planes of the random. ~ John Wyndham's Random Quest


I've staked my crew's life on the theory that you're a person, actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you'd best shoot me now... [River cocks the gun she is pointing at Mal]  Or, we could talk some more. ~ Captain Mal Reynolds Serenity


Spaceships are for acrobats who are also mathematicians. ~ Juan Rico in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers


Science ain't an exact science with these clowns but, they're getting better. ~ Louie Twelve Monkeys


You know the way I always wanted to save the planet? [tosses empty coke can into recycle bin] Here's my chance. ~  David Levinson  Independence Day


Anyway, it took time, effort and a great deal of procrastination to fine tune the world of great Sci-fi down to ten quotes and then try to priorities them. I think they are in 1 to 10 order.

This is the pitch for ENCOUNTERS an MG/YA SF adventure

When the counter-intelligence operatives of MI 8 came to pick twelve year-old, Thursday's brain, they brought a scalpel and an hermetically sealed room. 

HOOK LINE - help needed:



serious contender:

It wasn't her life that flashed before her eyes, it was an alternate reality: she imagined the house with foundations not wheels, parents who worked as accountants, and salty pink slices of death in thin white sandwiches. It was the brakes that screamed. 

or, the original


She imagined the house with foundations not wheels, parents who worked as accountants, and salty pink slices of death in thin white sandwiches, only the brake discs screeched. 


OK, the latest 

She imagined the house with foundations not wheels, parents who worked as accountants, and salty pink slices of death in thin white sandwiches. In the cream and maroon van, converted into a home, they swerved across the white lines painted down the centre of the road. Really, they had no choice: a wall of rock; the petrol tanker lying more like a victim than an assassin or the drop to the wide river. 

The blurb:
In ENCOUNTERS, twelve-year-olds, Thursday and Ethan learn who they are and what they aren’t – what it means to be human – when one of them is suspected of being alien and the other is... not from around here.