Landing Quotes

“wasn’t going to be okay. It had once been Alan’s job to imagine all the ways a thing might break, but he’d never thought of this: a quiet, painful fracture, so deep you only realized it was there when it was already too late to hold everything together.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“The mission was his life, his soul—and it was so much bigger than Alan, than any of the hundreds of thousands of scientists and mathematicians and builders and ordinary workers whose labor would create, in concert, a miracle far greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“There was nowhere he’d rather be than the lab, among the instruments and equations, his quiet, thoughtful colleagues—the order, the sense.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“Can you make hearts unbreakable?”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“I’m supposed to think of all the ways a thing might break, and then make that thing unbreakable”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“He wasn’t sure what exactly love was, how to quantify and measure it, but he knew how he’d felt on that day when he’d first met Carol.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“But sometimes the ones who make the sacrifices move the whole world forward out of darkness, into light.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“It wasn’t going to be okay. It had once been Alan’s job to imagine all the ways a thing might break, but he’d never thought of this: a quiet, painful fracture, so deep you only realized it was there when it was already too late to hold everything together.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing

“That was love, surely - that sense of being marked by another. Maybe it was. He thought he wanted it to be love, probably, most likely.”
― Olivia Hawker, Landing