Myridian

“His feelings were like jam spread thinly on bread and butter—sweet, all-encompassing, and readily available, but not penetrating very deeply.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“Of course, ‘facts’ aren’t the point: what the scientific process gives you is the least wrong interpretation based on the best available data at the time. It’s all subject to modification, although the scale of the necessary modifications tends to shrink over time as any given hypothesis is tested in more and more varied ways.”
― Helen Czerski, The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

“He’d been swimming in miracle every day of his life, and hadn’t even known it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

“There is calm and reassurance in permanence, in slowness, in the liberating relied of a refuge from the complex and fleeting details of our messy lives. Putting ourselves in perspective is almost like a drug, but instead of inserting chemicals into our body, it involves mentally inserting our body into the universe and then standing far enough back to be amazed at the comparison.”
― Helen Czerski, The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works