The Martian
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I now risked dying from oxygen toxicity, as the excessively high amount of oxygen threatened to burn up my nervous system, lungs, and eyes. An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen.
“There are vast worlds that exist between women. Blood and bonds and wounds and tales and symptoms and secrets and strength. So much strength. All that accumulated love and loss and history that sits just an inch or so below the events and interactions of any given day. I was stepping into that stream in that moment, sitting there at that table.”
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
“Skandees didn’t intend to stay on Meebs. They came to do a job and then leave. But of course along the way they did what people do all over the galaxies-they fell in love and planted gardens and had kids and built houses.”
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
“I asked Gerj about this-about this pattern-about why there was this one day that she did nothing. She rubbed her chin with her left hand and then she said Doing nothing is more important than doing something because nothing is what everything comes from.”
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
“I didn’t know what they were hoping to achieve with those shirts and those arrows but it appeared to me to be a smashing success.”
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
“I AM PAWP. And I can already sense that making your acquaintance will go down as one of the great events of my life.”
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
― There's Only One Noon Yeah
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