The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”

If I can save a distant, beautiful world that I have fallen in love with, then my life has not been wasted.