Joy

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“... a million acres of Continental Divide topography, a superstructure of tilted rock layers, white, tan, gray, grayish green, wine red, and more than a billion years old. They have tales to tell of great forces at play on the planet, and their stories soar. They shine with alpenglow. They sing in your eyes. They make you want to stay strong for another century, because while you think you could maybe face dying, you can’t deal with the idea of one day becoming too old and weak to ramble among these summits any longer.”
― Douglas H. Chadwick, [The Wolverine Way] [By: Chadwick, Douglas H.] [February, 2012]

“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”
― William S. Burroughs, Queer

“Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish. Similarly, when humans truly enter space and are freed from the Earth, they cease to be human. So, to all of you I say this: When you think about heading into outer space without looking back, please reconsider. The cost you must pay is far greater than you could imagine.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End