Yume Kitasei > Quotes

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

“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

“Another thing she should have told Medix: that grief was a universal thing, no matter what sun you’d been born under. And they were both of them choking on it now, oblivious to the danger around them.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“She didn’t know. She didn’t know a thing. And that was good, because it gave her hope.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“Your life is the one thing that's yours in the entire universe.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“All authority is fiction," said Ruth...”
― 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

“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

“And she was hit by that complicated wave of homesickness and alienation. The feeling of seeing yourself in a display case. Your food, your dress, your whole way of life. Pined and neatly labeled. Like being boiled and reduced on an electric stove to be eaten.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“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

“Life is strange, is it not? We move together in synchrony, yet we are unlike. Sometimes we must embrace things we cannot understand.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“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

“She hated the insularity of Earth culture, the single-minded pride in its history, the cult of nationalism that managed to persist even when the human perspective had grown so much bigger. But she loved it too, in a deep, biological way: its big skies and canopies of trees and the smell of rich soil after it rained.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“You can’t live in the universe without leaving footprints. You leave an impact wherever you go. So how hard can it be to find a thing that once was commonplace? We’ve found memories of the machine embedded in myth and the histories of every people we meet. We’ve chased countless rumors of where it might have been and might be—and nothing. The farther we go, the more I suspect we’re looking in the wrong place. It’s time, I think, to go back to the beginning.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“You can't live in the universe without leaving footprints.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“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

“You think you're own thoughts and that is beautiful. Haman nature is so delightfully chaotic. You fight with each other, you even fight with yourself in your own mind.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“Truth was worth only as much as it was known, and not just known, but believed.”
― Yume Kitasei, Saltcrop

“There were no limits to the mysteries of the universe.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“...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

“I’ve been wondering what we have in common—humans, Frenro, and everyone else. The thing is, I think it’s that question itself. We’re all looking for the answer to it. Yes, we want to survive, but we also want to be understood, respected, valued by other people. It’s a social thing, I guess. You don’t get to space-faring without that. “Maybe it isn’t possible to get along. We make war, even when we want peace. We fail, and we keep trying anyway. What I've seen is, life seeks other life. Humanity spent so many years looking skyward hoping we weren't alone.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“And she was hit by that complicated wave of homesickness and alienation. The feeling of seeing yourself in a display case: your food, your dress, your whole way of life, pinned and neatly labeled—like being boiled and reduced on an electric stove to be eaten.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“That hatred isn't always earned, it sometimes just happens to you. That justice doesn't mean the same thing for different people. That this was a thing that will pass eventually.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“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

“I just don’t want you to be disappointed again. It is human to worry too much, and you are superior at this skill. We must go forward.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“Water begat all life, and an universal thirst that drove it to return.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“My child, we cannot stay here, in this place of infinite regrets and bitter tasting dreams.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

“It is a privilege to witness an ending.”
― Yume Kitasei, The Stardust Grail

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