Perhaps the Stars

by Ada Palmer

Though there is always risk in reading history. Even if you live a thousand years after me, you’re gambling by reading, gambling your respect for your species, your ancestors, yourself.

But we are more. I know it. We are the instruments that carve the path from cave walls to the stars. We are what built this world and will build better ones.

We can do good, and our pasts don’t take that possibility away, not while we still live and breathe. And try.”