Alexandria

“in that moment, she could feel a bridge stretching between her as she was right then – giggling and gasping in a spaceship kitchen – to her at four years old, sucking algae gunk from her nails in the dark. She felt as though she could reach out to that little girl and pull her through the years. Look, she’d say. Look who you’re gonna be. Look where you’re gonna go.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Possessing knowledge and performing an action are two entirely different processes.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few