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Some true stories are easier to accept if you can convince yourself that at least part of them are fictional.
Just because there is no apparent causal connection, doesn’t mean a connection isn’t there.
No matter what we’re doing—sitting still on our couches or lying in our beds—every single one of us is moving through the universe at somewhere around 1.3 million miles per hour. We have no idea just how terrifyingly exposed we are—tiny things on a tiny world stuck inside a relatively small galaxy whipping through deep space at an alarming rate of speed. Anything apocalyptic could happen at any time.
Surrounding the fountain was a group of large stone birds, all staring up at the sky, wings spread, waiting to take flight. I found myself wondering what had been going on in the mind of the sculptor. Why were those birds poised to escape such a beautiful place?
“Everything has to do with everything,” he said. “That’s the thing you can never forget. That’s the thing behind the thing.”
the first working quantum machine will never be announced, because whoever gets it will become the master of the universe.”
“A universe doesn’t die like a person.” She looked down at Crow’s body, lying twisted on the ground. “It’s not light fading from a cage of blood and bone. It’s billions of years of starfire and wonder.”
