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“Choice or no, my heart is his.”
“Well, sometimes home is a person.”
“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”
“Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?”
“He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.”
“Im sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.”
“Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold ont...”
“...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.”
“I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequat...”
“Thatthisis Orions secret. Its not that the ship isnt working, that were never going to make it.Its that the ship has already arrived.Were already here! Therethereis the planet that will be our home...”
“Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.”
“I feel alone.I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants t...”
“People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. Were all spiraling out of control.”
“I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.”
“That—this—is Orion’s secret. It’s not that the ship isn’t working, that we’re never going to make it.It’s that the ship has already arrived.We’re already here! There—there—is the planet that will b...”
