How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

She was always talking about how the unknown past would save us. For a scientist, she dreamed more like a poet or a philosopher.”

“Opportunities are like little seeds floating in the wind. Your life is there. Some people have a big net to collect them all. Other people need to pray that the right seeds, the best ones, make their way to them with just enough bad ones to appreciate the good.”

“We become everything we pass until we become the thing we created.