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“When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I was going to die? Yes. Absolutely, and that’s what you need to know going in because it’s going to happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south and you’re going to say 'This is it. This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem. Then you solve the next one, and then the next and if you solve enough problems you get to come home.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian: A Screenplay

“And Philip...
'You are in love with him,' the duke had said.
'No, I am not,' she said out loud. But her heart flipped, her hands grew sweaty, and her entire body hummed like she'd swallowed a beehive.
'I'm just hungry,' she concluded. That was it, yes. Tea would fix this.”
― Sofi Laporte, Arabella and the Reluctant Duke

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit!”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. ”
― Brian Andreas