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“I think some people don’t mind being stuck or being alone.”
Jake shook his head. “That isn’t loneliness; that’s being alone. When you choose to be alone, that’s different. My mom, my dad, they didn’t choose it. Loneliness keeps finding them.” He paused. “And it gets me feeling like I don’t know how it can’t find me.”

In enjoying this, don’t get me wrong, but I think one of the differences in the sequel is it’s a little too self aware of the first one’s prophetic vision. The four seasons joke was funny but also a little too on the nose.

“Men and boys never made me feel comfortable. I wasn’t allowed to observe - I had to do. I had to fight, or I had to play shortstop, or I had to hold the flashlight or do push-ups or break glass. I had no interest in doing. I was almost completely defeated by simply being.”

“The built that shit so somebody’s ass gotta come.”

“Love is love. Don’t matter the place.”

“She gave no outward sign of inward singing”

HOLY

“You’ve been through enough bad, G. You have to let the good in, too.”

“But maybe it’s really the possibilities that are easy to fall in love with. Looking at any situation, any relationship, any story, and having the sublime ability to wonder where it will take is a bit intoxicating, really. There’s a rush every time I load a blank sheet of paper. Like a first kiss from a first love.”

“They looked into the darkness together.”

“Seems safer to read about love in novels than it is to honestly experience it.”

I thought this was just a book about the space race 😭

“I don’t know. But for these next few minutes, we breathe. Once that’s done, we’ll take on the next.”

“We’re going to face it all head-on. Your parents, the war, the whole Royal Air Force.”

😭😭😭

“Johnson is an asshole.”
“I’m just telling you what they’re saying.”

““It can be both, perhaps. I’ve never felt that the presence of God and the science of humankind were incompatible. It is enough for me to feel that God has given us the skills to decipher His or Her or Their universe accordingly - science is just how we map that creation, how we understand it, and how we use it to better ourselves.” He told her it was okay to believe in all of it.”

“Best part of a movie or a book is a good ending, I figure. Stories wouldn’t be much fun if they never stopped.”

“There’s no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.”

“All good soldiers are philosophers, same as a priest or a professor. You have to be when you deal with matters of life and death.”

“She felt a sudden longing to be outdoors, surrounded by living things, and not trapped in ships that stank of sweat and machine oil.”

“‘And the mission itself?’
‘It needs doing. Aish. What else is there to say?’”

“For those who ventured into the unknown, there was a duty to protect those left behind, those who lived their lives in familiar bounds.”

Made it to part 2!

“Light-years were long beyond imagining, and even with all the benefits of modern technology it was an enormous, terrifying distance, and the shuttle no more than a mote of dust hurtling through the void.”

I’m panicking

“They always used the passive voice when acknowledging a mistake.”

“She was ready for a new challenge, one that balanced the familiar with the alien, the safe with the outlandish.”

“The realization hits me like a wall. My life has been an endless war.”

I just want ART and Murderbot to k*ss