Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

by Becky Chambers

‘From the stars, came the ground,’ she said to the body. ‘From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return.’

‘I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice . . . I get dessert twice.’

Perhaps none of us can truly explain death. Perhaps none of us should.

‘Knowledge should always be free,’ she said. ‘What people do with it is up to them.’

Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.

learn nothing of your subjects, and you will disrupt them. Learn something of your subjects, and you will disrupt them.

‘Our species doesn’t operate by reality. It operates by stories.