Top 35 Tim Lebbon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.”

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2. “Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.”

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3. “Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.”

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4. “Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.”

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5. “Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.”

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6. “Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.”

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7. “The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”

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8. “Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves.”

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9. “He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.”

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10. “Maybes. Possibles. Don’t knows.”

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11. “I am the Reverend, the note said in a spidery scrawl. Would you like to join my flock of the Hushed?”

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12. “At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void.”

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13. “Love is a warm brain, not a leaping heart.”

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14. “A Je’daii needs darkness and light, shadow and illumination, because without the two there can be no balance. Veer to Bogan, and Ashla feels too constraining, too pure; edge toward Ashla, and Bogan becomes a monstrous myth. A Je’daii without balance between both is no Je’daii at all. He, or she, is simply lost.”

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15. “Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.”

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16. “I realised that everyone and everything out there had a story, and that most stories would never be told.”

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17. “I like to think I’m positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.”

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18. “If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they’re how He talks to you.”

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19. “Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they’ll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.”

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20. “Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.”

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21. “I know I am an android, but I feel so... happy.”

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22. “Level 4,” Lachance said. “Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.”

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23. “Real fear is like intense pain. It’s there to warn you something’s truly wrong.”

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24. “She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen’s egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster’s face.”

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25. “Right then, the future was barely an hour long.”

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26. “Nature is a big influence on my work. That’s where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.”

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27. “To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.”

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28. “This was a danger beyond humanity, one that had existed since long before humans even knew what the stars were.”

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29. “Relying on oneself is too much of an alien concept for so many. That is why millions have died.”

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30. “The world had shrugged at him and revealed its indifference.”

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31. “Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.”

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32. “She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.”

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33. “It was strange. I was already looking at something as it had been. History looked so calm.”

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34. “She had already contacted her Peacemaker to ensure that everything there was as it should be. Ironholgs had spat and buzzed as if annoyed at being disturbed, but all was well. She yearned to be back in the ship, alone.”

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35. “All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.”

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36. “Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.”

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37. “Your life is a blank, and you’re barely a shade across it.”

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38. “Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider’s dense webbing.”

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