Ascendent Quotes

“You knew him once inside a star. You know him again now, on Earth. You will know him again in the future, in another form. Your love is imprinted on this universe, in all its intricacies, all its perfections, its imperfections, all the ways it twists and turns. And when you reach the end of time, your love will still be there with you. Because he is of you, and you are of him. And you will always be you.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“Every atom of you was created in the heart of a star, Sasha. Yours and your love’s, created in the same moment, of the same atom, and then scattered for a billion years. The calcium in your cheek bone, the iron in the blood that pumps faster through your heart when you see your love. The eyes you see with, that bears the image of your beloved on every micron of your cells.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“Years ago, I cut out part of my soul. The parts of me that I hated. [...] When I wanted to love you, those parts of me weren't there. I couldn't love you fully, Seryosha. Not without everything I'd thrown away.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“all that’s left, and I’m nobody. I’m nothing.” “You are exactly who you are. You are Sasha Alexanderovich Andreyev. You are the son of the ancient men who hand printed cave walls. You are the son of scientists who first peered up to the heavens, who first counted the stars in the firmament. You are the son of men who believed they could puncture the roof of the world, sail amongst those pinpricks of light. See the faces of the gods overhead. You are the predecessor of men who will soar beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. You are the creation of stars being born, of the universe’s endless cycle of life.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“Three months later, Natalia’s father committed suicide, falling from a thirteen-story balcony in St. Petersburg after shooting himself twice in the head.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“And then love him again, rebirth himself out of the same star that had created them, spend another four billion years searching for this love, because this, this moment, this love, was worth it. It was worth everything.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“have loved you since time began. Since we were elements inside the same star.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“You think you are the only gay Russian in the entire country?”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“It is a trip, huh?”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“You knew him once inside a star. You know him again now, on Earth. You will know him again in the future, in another form. Your love is imprinted on this universe, in all its intricacies, all its perfections, its imperfections, all the ways it twists and turns.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“See the faces of the gods overhead. You are the predecessor of men who will soar beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“You are the sun, and I am caught in your orbit, in your shine, for all time.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“No wonder planets stayed in their sun’s orbit. Who would ever run from that, from the perfection—the capture—of serenity?”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“He felt the years of his life settle around him, the history of himself fold into place. The past was the past. The future was now.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“He felt as cold as the world, as if he could lay down on the tundra and become one with the desolation. It called to him, the nothingness. The emptiness.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent