The Deep Sky Quotes

“You ever think about how we live our life in constant motion?" Kat's voice asked in her ear. "Born on a rock spinning through space, and now here we are, rushing off to another. How come we can never just be? We've always got to go somewhere.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“What was it about mothers, that they could know you so well? And not know you at all.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“She thought how there was nothing pure about love after all. How it had to get muddy with misunderstanding. People like her mother, like Ruth, they would always be other stars, visible but impossibly far away, and she would have to settle for imagining she knew what they were like inside.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“All authority is fiction," said Ruth...”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“And she realized this was one way a person could live: find a thing that gave you joy, and then the next thing, hopping from lily pad to lily pad of brightness until you came to the end.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“A parent can't write the end of a child's story. If she's lucky, she will never even know it.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“But hope is a problem too, if it isn't real. I'd rather live a meter from despair, if it gives me the kick in the butt to move forward.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“She thought how there was nothing pure about love after all. How it had to get muddy with misunderstanding. People like her mother, like Ruth, they would always be other stars, visible but impossibly far away, and she would have to settle for imagining she knew what they were like inside. That didn’t make it any less real.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“She wanted to want to belong, to sink her toes in the soil and feel the land recognize her, give back the piece of her that she sometimes felt was missing when she was in America. She didn't feel it, though. She felt lost.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“Asuka carried the box of defective bots to the Bot Shop, metallic limbs and stubby, cylindrical bodies rattling like anxiety trapped in an old mason jar under the bed.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

“What was it about mothers, that they could know you so well, and not know you at all.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky