Isaac Long

“There was no objection when he said: “I’m going after it.” Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“One’s first existence was a precious gift which would never be repeated.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars

“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 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