Clues to the Universe Quotes

“Sometimes, science means looking at the cards ten times before you finally catch the trick. It means failing, and trying, and failing again, all in hopes of making things better the next time around.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Those were just successes. But how many failures did the scientists have to see? How many times did their rockets not orbit the planet, or not take off at all? How many times had they dreamed about landing on the moon, only to realize that they couldn't make it happen, not yet?”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Why had I ever thought my dad would be the superhero? Mom had been standing in front of me all along, holding our world up on her shoulders.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Grief: The Next Steps.
As if I could even thing of taking more than one step. So I made up the Next Best Step.
What was the best thing I could do right now, in this situation, to try to make things even a tiny bit better?”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“It was this part that wished, in an aching way, that getting my dad back was as easy—as possible—as putting a star over a city on a map and chasing it down winding roads until I finally saw him and everything was whole again.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“What’s wrong with wanting to figure out how fast the Earth rotates around the sun or wanting to launch a rocket because I want to know things? Because I actually care?”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“I could always do the Next Best Step, but sometimes I wondered if some people were meant to walk around with craters in their hearts for the rest of their lives.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe

“Plus, if I properly recorded the things we had in the house, they’d never be lost again.”
― Christina Li, Clues to the Universe