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“FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero a...”
“Failure makes the success worth it.”
“We keep sending colonies up into space, Akilah says, and we dont even know whats at the bottom of the sea.Yeah, we do, I counter. Fish and stuff.Akilah laughs. Weve barely explored the sea. There a...”
“The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than Ive ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they dont show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...”
“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...”
“I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. Thisthisthis is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.”
“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...”
“(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.”
“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.”
“And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.”
“I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands ...”
“I have emotions, I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.”
“It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare thats already come true.”
“I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.”
“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...”
“Well, sometimes home is a person.”
“I realize the simple truth is that power isnt control at all- power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isnt someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someon...”
“What you really want to know, I say, is how to make sure we all dont just rip each other apart, right? The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow u...”
“If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?”
“How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.”
