More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love.” Carl Sagan
he missed the lullaby of the skies, the gentle song as he reached toward the very edge of heaven to find out what was beyond. Another him, maybe? The edge of another heaven, where he existed in another form.
Everything about Julian was so much, so good, so worthy, and Archer wanted to take everyone who had ever wronged him and bash their heads until they finally fucking understood what a gift they had in him.
“It means that the terrible, beautiful, inevitable death of a star is responsible for the miraculous, beautiful inevitable birth of you.” He moved in close, and Julian could feel his next words pressed against his own lips. “That is how important you are. A star accepted its death to make sure you were standing here. With me. Right now.”
this felt like his entire past was being re-written so his beginning was starting here.
Earth—and life like this—can only exist under the exact right conditions. I think love is like that.”
he had never been in love, but he liked to think falling felt a lot like this. It wasn’t zero gravity, it wasn’t an endless, weightless spin. It was being grounded, pulled to Earth, fighting against being crushed by the force of it—and it was everything.
“I would figure out the way to change the orbit of the fucking Earth around the sun if it meant I could have another chance—knowing it would probably end all life on Earth.”
“You are enough,” Julian said again, the answer to his previous argument. “You will always be enough.” “And you will always be the wish I make on any falling star,” Archer told him.
