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“I don’t know. Both,” Miller said. “You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.”
“Because I love you, baby,” he said instead. “And I want you to go be amazing.”
All I wanted was my freedom. All I wanted was my family with me, and not to lose another child to them. He was amazed and sick at heart that that had been too much to ask of the universe.
“Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,” she said. “We don’t do that here.”
“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.”
“A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are. I’m who I am, and it wasn’t what my wife wanted me to be, and somethin’ had to break.
One of my teachers back in school always used to say that contagion was the one absolute proof of community.
“Elvi, listen. You are the smartest woman I’ve ever met, and I’ve been at some of the best universities there are. If there’s anyone, anywhere that can get us out of this, it’s you, and I would very much like to grow very, very old and decrepit and probably incontinent and senile in your company. So if you could save my life and everyone else’s, I’d very much appreciate it.”
His little girl going up to safety. Temporary, sure, but all safety was.
