The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

by Eliot Schrefer

“I know that you two think you have all the answers, but you’re fifteen years old, which means you’re also idiots.

Though carbon is present, silicon dominates most of its biology.

WOO basic astrobiology theory wooo

I’m not actually that vain; it’s more like I play a vain person in my own life.

“Because. With this great lie, and news of the assassination down below spreading like wildfire, we have a one-time opportunity to demolish the world’s political system. Incremental reform hasn’t worked. The world must be broken to be rebuilt.”

Unexpected!

What was it that Dad once said? Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Okay. But how can I be close to my family if they don’t want me to be who I truly am? Since I don’t want to witness their disappointment all day every day, my darkness must be a secret. And that makes me feel ashamed. It’s the dearest friend of loneliness, shame.

Oh...

“That as soon as we classify someone, we establish the ways in which they’re separate from us. It’s the most fundamental othering that we do.”