Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

by Becky Chambers

What was better – a constant safeness that never grew and never changed, or a life of reaching, building, striving, even though you knew you’d never be completely satisfied?

To an Exodan, the question of choosing a profession is not one of what do I need? but rather what am I good at? What good can I do?

When an Exodan asks ‘what do you do?’, the real question is: ‘What do you do for us?’

I don’t know. But if everything has to have a point: what’s the point of hunting and gathering? How is that more meaningful than any of this?’

be-all question – well, that’s still up for discussion. Why? What’s the point? Kip, there isn’t a sapient species living or dead that hasn’t grappled hard with that. It scares us.

That’s a poisonous thing, thinking your way is all there is. The

Figure out what you love, specifically. In detail. Figure out what you want to keep. Figure out what you want to change. Otherwise, it’s not love.