“She didn't want to be the human race. It sounded too big a responsibility.”

“Home's what's left over when you've figured out all the places you don't want to be. Sounds stupid, doesn't it? But that's what we do. We say not there and not there and not there, until there's on...”

“There are different types of salvation." he said, diplomatically. "No." Rena shook him off. "There's only one. In the voice of God, speaking through the space between the stars.”

“There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.”

“Some prospects for success seems bleak but are not with hard work”

“Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another.”

“The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”