Kacy

“Here everything — books, manuscripts, ideas — is steeped in and marked by the anguish of those living alone, the problematic nature of human existence, and the strong desire to invest new meaning in this human life which has become meaningless.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“She faced down evil and death the way a child faces life and the future, oblivious to what it means but still making the most of it.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“With that thought, the boy had the electric realisation that all his life he had been eating the decisions of his Ancestors. Every fish, every mudcrab, every ugari or turtle or vegetable or egg or fruit, they all came to him — to all his people — from generations of nurture. None of it was accidental, or random. And if his Old People hadn't cherished the biggest fish and the female turtles, if they hadn't sung up the Country, and protected the fecund of every species since the dawn of time, then he would not have eaten the results from the fire that night. Just as his children and grandchildren still unborn had needed him to release today's Matriarch. The thought consumed him with wonder; it made him feel small, yet at the same time as though he belonged in a universe of meaning; part of a web of ceaseless and sacred connection across thousands of generations.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie

“Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy