Into the Stars Quotes

“He was extremely detail-oriented, but more than that, he had a way of distilling a super-complex problem down to simple terms even the average person could understand.”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“It’s a planet with a mass of 1.05 times that of Earth. Meaning the gravity on the planet is roughly five percent more powerful than on Earth, but not enough to really affect humans or cause us many problems.”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“He was doing his best to remain calm and stoic. This was a critical moment in human history. They were about to embark upon a campaign to conquer a new planet and establish their first-ever forward military outpost on the outskirts of a galactic empire they knew very little about.”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“Jonathan, it’s not the amount of time you have in this life that matters. It’s about what you do with the time you have. How you lived your life. How you loved those around you. I’ve lived more in forty-two years than I’m guessing most of the people on your home world have in that same time. I’ve made peace with the fact that I was given forty years of life and nothing more. Everything beyond that is a gift.”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“The months on end of nothing but blackness grated on a person’s psyche. Sure, they had seen some incredible sights during some of their stops to recharge their FTL drive, but they didn’t replace the warmth of a sun’s rays on your skin, or the senseless banter of people talking in a restaurant or coffee shop. The ability to share these incredible sights with the one you loved left him longing more and more for home and Lilly’s embrace than he thought he could bear. In the depths of space, all anyone had was the people and stuff they brought with them.”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“His ship, the O, was still in the final phases of construction”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars

“you, Admiral. Congratulations”
― James Rosone, Into the Stars