Isaac Long

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

“He’d learned firsthand that he was capable of killing another human being. And nowhere along the line could he say that there, at that moment, he had been a sane, whole man, and that afterward, he hadn’t. Maybe”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight. “I’m”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“those years in a man’s twenties when he shrugs off the shelter of youth and before he has bothered to erect his own. The tent-less years. The bright and blinding years in which men wander as the planets do. A”
― Hugh Howey, Sand