“Choice or no, my heart is his.”

“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...”

“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”

“...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.”

“Im sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.”

“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...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”