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“If I wanted to suck vile fluids out of a flaccid and indifferent tube, I’d have stayed on Earth with my husband.”
It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.
The human mind didn’t do well with infinite spaces. It wanted walls, horizons, limits. It would create them if it had to.
His cardio had suffered. The dangers of growing rich and lazy.
Anna had walked on a moon of Jupiter. She’d looked up through a dome-covered sky at the great red spot, close enough to see the swirls and eddies of a storm larger than her home world. She’d tasted water thawed from ice as old as the solar system itself. And it was that human dissatisfaction, that human audacity, that had put her there. Looking at the tiny world spinning around her, she knew one day it would give them the stars as well.
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
Charting the course of a life was making a map of the ways each event changed the person, leaving someone different on the other side.
