Katrin

“Maybe, if they could find a way to be gentle, the stars would be better off with them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon’s Ashes

“I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“On the bottom staff—the taste of earth, worms, and dust; the smell of dead leaves and frankincense. On the top—the luminosity of awareness making sense of transience and predestination. Three quiet major chords marked the moment of death, because death was sweet. It was our true home, the home we'd left and been trying to get back to. It's what we had passed through before and would pass through again, a moment of truth that suspended the weight of thought, the weight of the will to inhabit a dead universe.”
― Nikolai Grozni

“Like your kind/
we usually destroy
what we cannot understand”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion