Isaac Long

“The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He’d never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. “There”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“All of human civilization had been built out of the ruins of what had come before. Life itself was a grand chemical improvisation that began with the simplest replicators and grew and collapsed and grew again. Catastrophe was just one part of what always happened. It was a prelude to what came next. “You”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War