"Sometimes Laurence zoned out and imagined walking on another Earth-like planet. The weird gravity...."

“Sometimes Laurence zoned out and imagined walking on another Earth-like planet. The weird gravity. The different mix of oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen in the air. Types of life that might defy our definitions of “plant” or “animal.” More than one moon, maybe more than one sun. His heart could burst, just with the newness of it: digging bare feet into soil that no human toes had ploughed, under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.”

- All the Birds in the Sky, p. 239