Good Morning, Midnight Quotes

“Only the cosmos inspired great feeling in him. Perhaps what he felt was love, but he’d never consciously named it. His was an all-consuming one-directional romance with the emptiness and the fullness of the entire universe. There was no room to spare, no time to waste on a lesser lover. He preferred it that way. The”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“I think he’s unkind because it’s easier to be angry than frightened,”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“. . .as the silence wore on it grew cacophonous.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“He had never been satisfied and never would be. It wasn't success he craved, or even fame, it was history: he wanted to crack the universe open like a ripe watermelon, to arrange the mess of pulpy seeds before his dumbfounded colleagues. He wanted to take the dripping red fruit in his hands and quantify the guts of infinity to look back into the dawn of time and glimpse the very beginning. He wanted to be remembered.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“The dream clung to her. Her sleep had been full of Jupiter ever since the survey last week: that overwhelming, unstoppable girth; the swirling patterns of the atmosphere, dark belts and light stripes rolling in circular rivers of ammonia crystal clouds; every shade of orange in the spectrum, from soft, sand-coloured regions to vivid streams of molten vermilion; the breathtaking speed of a ten-hour orbit, whipping around and around the planet like a spinning top; the opaque surface, simmering and roaring in century-old tempests. And the moons! The ancient, pockmarked skin of Callisto and the icy crust of Ganymede. The rusty cracks of Europa’s subterranean oceans. The volcanoes of Io, magma fireworks leaping up from the surface.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“She tried to calm herself, to still the drift of her body, but the lack of gravity made it difficult to remain stationary. Her shoulder bumped one of the speakers, her hip nudged a screen, and the more she fought to be still, the more she drifted. She was fighting an absence instead of a presence, and it suddenly chilled her. Which way was up? As the floor dropped away to become the ceiling, she felt the thread of logic she'd followed throughout the mission, throughout her entire life, snap. Hard work and intelligence could not keep her safe−there was nothing she could have done, no amount of effort or foresight or skill could have kept any of this from happening. Nothing in this universe could possibly keep any of them safe.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“But you are a scientist. You understand how this works. We study the universe in order to know, yet in the end the only thing we truly know is that all thing end- all but death and time. It's difficult to be reminded of that-" he patted her hand where it lay on the table-"but it's harder to forget.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“He wanted to tell her about his work, his achievements, but also his failures -to confess his sins, and to be forgiven. Here, at the very end of his life, he had so much to say and yet so little strenght to say it.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“The sky becomes translucent above her, the universe on the other side bleeding through as the blue deepens and the stars prick the atmosphere.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“Jack was a minefield, planted with resentment and deadly shards of joy.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“The sun slipped behind the mountains, sending shots of color into the sky like a dancer throwing silk scarves in the air.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“She would’ve wept if she’d had any tears left, but her eyes were red and dry. She turned out the light. “Good night,” he finally called, and he sounded like himself again. She laid her cool palms against the pulsing heat of her eyelids. She would’ve smiled, but she didn’t have any of those left either.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“Psychologically necessary equipment. The human mind had never been tested quite like this. Could they have been better prepared? Trained more extensively? What tools would help them now? It seemed ridiculous, but perhaps these books, sheaves of paper made from trees that had once grown on their home planet, full of made-up stories, were what kept Thebes so much more grounded than the rest of them.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“He dog-eared his page”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“S'ils ne devaient plus jamais sentir la gravité de leur planète, à quoi bon ces soins et exercices destinés à rappeler à leurs corps ce qu'il pesait? S'ils ne devaient jamais partager les découvertes livrées par la lune de Galilée, à quoi bon continuer les recherches? Si leur planète et ceux qu'ils connaissaient avaient brûlé ou gelé, s'étaient atomisés, avaient été décimés par une maladie quelconque version tout aussi déplaisante de l'extinction, pourquoi ne pas se laisser aller, ne pas déprimer? Pourquoi s'efforcer de rester en forme? Quelle importance s'ils dormaient ou mangeaient trop ou le contraire - le désespoir ne s'imposait-il pas? Ne correspondait-il pas à la situation?”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“...even the fleeting things were worth their weight in sadness.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“6. When did you realize that Augustine and Sully are connected? Why do you think they never understand how they are related to each other?”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight