How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

For me, some chances you take just because the possibilities are beautiful.

We can only take comfort knowing that our ancestors are not dead, only elsewhere, brought to life anew from the same light that once fell here, and beginning again the great adventure that is our past.

How long does something have to last for us to call it a success? They rose, they lasted for a while, they fell. Things don’t have to last forever.”

“I know where we are. And I know when we are. And we’ve been thinking about this all wrong. We’re on Earth. This is Earth.”

The moment between when we went to sleep and when we opened our eyes was about five hundred million years.”

We got retransmitted. We’ve been bouncing around from civilization to civilization like the baton in a relay race.”

“We can live a billion different ways from here, but there’s only one path behind us. That was never going to change.” Gabriel shifted to French, and another voice joined him: Megan’s, crooning “Quelqu’un m’a dit.” Roy smiled, listening to her. “Well, we were good when we were good.” “And when we weren’t anymore, we stopped. That’s worth more than you give it credit for. It’s possible to be faithful to something that’s in the past. It’s not a betrayal to build something new when something old is finished.” “Honor the past without living in it.”