Light from Uncommon Stars Quotes

“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“The world is changing, you know. A pity you aren’t ready to live in it.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Who needs the Devil when people can create a hell like this themselves?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“To be filled with such music, yet be unable to play. She was not unfamiliar with what that could do to a soul.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“With no need for a beginning, nor any reason to end, the music continues. And so, no matter who you are, where you came from, what sins you have committed or hurt you have endured... when you are alone and there is no universe left to remember you.
You can always, always rewrite your song”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Maybe the universe is filled with introverts?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“One does not play memories of music; one plays music itself. And lifetimes, from beginning to end, are as sheets of music, ready to be played.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Think of a piece of music. Is it not a miracle that each time the notes are played, the music is reborn?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“You can always, always rewrite your song.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Let her feel old and broken. Let her feel childish and naïve. There was no need to be perfectly beautiful, nor immortal, nor untouchable. After all, none of that was needed to write a poem or to sing a song.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“What would happen if someone played their existence not only to its inevitable end, but also to its inevitable beginning? What if someone played their music to its inevitable everything?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Katrina thought of all the nights she felt certain she would die alone. With no one to care, and
a million things left unsaid. Even Ms. Satomi didn't know how difficult it was when you didn't feel real. Even Ms. Satomi didn't know how it felt when the only real thing genuine about you was the hurt your existence caused.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Well, if you feel that strongly about your truth, then there is no reason to worry about your existence, is there?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“A good bread tastes like home.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Music, sometimes great music, from the hands and hearts of those who infuse their art with their very souls.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Nice mouthfeel. Creamy. Not at all like the eggs that one might buy at the store. I assume this chicken ate worms in the garden.’

Shirley tasted again.

‘Yes. These eggs. Definitely worms,’ she said before passing the fork back to Katrina.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Catalin Matía would smile whenever someone described great music as divine. To him, that was nonsense. Great music is all about weakness, uncertainty, mortality—what does Heaven know of these?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“No, you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to make donuts—but that didn’t mean being a rocket scientist didn’t help.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Why did being human hurt so much? Why couldn’t she have been different, without a soul, without worth? Why couldn’t she have been the thing her parents might have wanted?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“There was still work to do; there would be good days ahead, and terrible ones. But now there was understanding. And with understanding, all things were possible.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“No one drives a Prius in space,”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Most often, however, we arrive at planets like this one … long forgotten after the Endplague has left them for dead. I played Handel. The survivors cried. They told me of the crimes they had committed. I told them of mine. Many were angry. More were ashamed. They asked, “Do we even have the right to hear this music? Is this okay?” But as I played, they listened. And slowly, their music welcomed them home. What did they find? Perhaps themselves. Perhaps each other—who am I to say? All I know is that I was not playing alone.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Cursed or not, she drew her bow across as she would draw her breath. Queer or not, she would play with a cursed bow and be called an abomination. Trans or not, deviant or not, that did not mean there was anything wrong with her love.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“The songs will change, but the music is never truly gone. A life ends. A life begins. But always, it is here for us to play.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Heartache comes from glimpsing over one's shoulder, the yearning for Thanksgiving, the persistent memory of sweetness. Breaking comes from knowing exactly how it could have been.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Even Miss Satomi didn’t know how difficult it was when you didn’t feel real. Even Miss Satomi didn’t know how it felt when the only real thing genuine about you was the hurt your existence caused.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“But what if everything she had told herself was a lie? What if it wasn’t about what she was, but that she was? What if something about her was intrinsically, inherently wrong?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“what is reality but a song that one imagines and sets free?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars

“Finally. A rainbow flag on the door, a compost pile in the yard. Katrina had arrived.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars