Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Astronomy was history. Because space was time.

when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.

To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history who looked above at that same set of stars. It is to witness time unfolding.

My God, she thought, what else can I do?

chills, literal chills

her mind. Which was such a gift. She had always been her greatest friend, her greatest guide.

“Tell me that’s not the heavens.”

“I’ve always felt like, when I look at the stars, I am reminded that I am never alone,”

Being human was such a lonely endeavor.

We are made of the same things as the stars and the planets.

That’s what I admire.” “My curiosity?” “Your commitment to the world around you. How much you care. You are so thoughtful. About everything.” Joan suspected that liking the view of herself through Vanessa’s eyes was dangerous. She just wasn’t sure how.

“I mean, fine. But she’s struggling, Joan. I know she doesn’t say it, but she misses you. She’s been very crabby lately, a little rude, honestly.”

Joan is not her father...

When the woman turned to them, it was Joan who spoke up: “I’ll take this.”

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“And certainly not how hard it is to do it by myself. With no one helping me.”

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“The whole sky makes sense to me now,” Vanessa said. “Because of you.”

And I want to hold your hand in a quiet corner and I want to lie in bed and hear your heartbeat through your chest. I want to bring you coffee in bed. And I want to hear you tell me anything you’ve always wanted to tell someone. Because you know that you’ve met someone who desperately wants to listen.”

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“I don’t know but I…I want to show you every good thing I’ve ever found,” Joan said.

“I love your dress,” she said. And then, in a low whisper: “And I want to take it off you.” A heaviness took hold in Joan’s hips.

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“I am going to say, ‘That’s God’! Not just because it’s beautiful, but because sunrise over the mountains is part of the universe itself. Everything, all of us, is God.”

“And you will be the first woman to pilot the shuttle,” Joan said.

Foreshadow?

“Sorry,” she said. “Here I was thinking family is the most important thing. I’ll remember that’s not true for you, next time.”

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bueno pero pon un poquito de tu parte también

Joan felt, so acutely, that the incurable problem with life was that nothing was ever in balance.

Language is what allows us to communicate. But it also limits what we can say, perhaps even how we feel. After all, how can we recognize a sentiment within ourselves that we have no word for? And perhaps, Joan thought, science is the same. Even the way we tell one another we want to live alongside them is limited by what we understand is possible in the world. What more could we say if we knew more about the universe?

“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”

just wow

“What? You may not like it, but nothing I said is factually incorrect.”

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“I am going to let her learn that it’s not always about her and that it’s time that my life starts, too.

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And I can promise you with my entire body that you will never be alone. Every day, you can wake up and go to bed knowing there is someone whose heart is bursting, barely able to contain how much they love you.