Silvia

“But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Progress is not a thing but a feeling, it's a feeling of adventure and expansion that starts in the belly and works up to the chest (and so often ends in the head where it tends to go wrong).”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“The Milky Way is a smoking trail of gunpowder shot through a satin sky.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men