Ascension Quotes

“There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Love is like sunlight,” she said when I didn't respond. “You can give all of yourself to someone and still have all of yourself left to give to others, and to yourself. To your work. To anything or anyone you choose. Love isn't like food; you won't starve anyone by giving It freely. It's not a finite resource.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“I can't stand how much like my dreams you smell; it's torture. You are torture. You wear metal on your skin like you're made of it, and it bites at me every time you're around. No matter how many showers I take, I smell your scent on me, on this ship, while I'm trying to sleep. I don't understand it, and can't stand it. I can't stand how I want you so badly and don't at the same time, because you're what I've been looking for, and I don't know what it means to have found it.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Treatments worked well enough for us to get by. Most people lived into old age, but the medication, like everything else, has never been free. Life was a privilege, not a right, apparently. Something you had to struggle for when you were unlucky enough to be born at the intersection of poverty and bad genes.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Love is like sunlight,” she said when I didn’t respond. “You can give all of yourself to someone and still have all of yourself left to give to others, and to yourself. To your work. To anything or anyone you choose. Love isn’t like food; you won’t starve anyone by giving it freely. It’s not a finite resource.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“I don’t get it.’
‘You don’t have to. People don’t exist for us to get”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Dirt doesn’t feel right on the heels of someone born to be in the sky.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“There’s magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it—that’s your ego letting go.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“I had believed if you loved someone or something enough to be consumed by it, it simply wasn’t possible to love anyone else. There wouldn’t be space for them in a heart so full. Devotion was a single-file line.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“I did myself a disservice by looking at everything I did in the context of someone else.”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Wouldn’t I rather be a constant choice than a default option? Wouldn’t I rather choose her, choose the Axon, choose my life, again and again?”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension

“Tev would forever have to share me with my vocation, and I would have to share her with hers. We’d never give up the things that made us who we were. And I’d have it no other way. Was sharing her love with other people so different”
― Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension