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“Maybe we’re the new dinosaurs and need to watch out. But then maybe against all the odds we’ll migrate to Mars where we’ll start a colony of gentle preservers, people who’ll want to keep the red planet red, we’ll devise a planetary flag because that’s a thing we lacked on earth and we’ve come to wonder if that’s why it all fell apart, and we’ll look back at the faint dot of blue that is our old convalescing earth and we’ll say, Do you remember? Have you heard the tales?”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“If we feel guilty about some aspect of our sexuality, I hope we can understand where that's coming from within ourselves and take responsibility for it. But feeling guilty is not taking responsibility; that comes with understanding the true origins of our guilt. And when that happens, it makes sexuality less burdensome for our children. It may not heal the scars and might not undo the damage, but it will certainly open some doors in their lives.”
― Daniel Gottlieb, Voices in the Family: A Therapist Talks About Listening, Openness, and Healing

“The night’s electric excess takes their breath. The spread of life. The way the planet proclaims to the abyss: there is something and someone here.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“To be out there, Nell thinks, to have no glass or metal between her and this. Just a spacesuit filled with coolant to ward off the sun’s heat. Just a spacesuit and piece of rope and her slender life.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital