Marina

“But I think life is so full of horrors that we just had to create love. It’s like sainthood, you know, bestowing love on a person. They are the miracle in your life, and that is why you tell them you love them. Love, mister, love makes tolerable the horror of living.”
― Nicholas Day, Grind Your Bones to Dust

“The only way you’ll ever really know people is to see them in a crisis. People do the worst things to each other, Newton. Just the worst. Friendships, family, love and brotherhood—toss it all out the window”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“The airlock opened before me, edgeless vacuity beyond. There were no winds here, no crashing waves. Only the cold constancy of stars, to which I was just a crude bit of wet carbon, a flake of skin you brush aside. My pain and pettiness and mistakes and inadequacies did not matter. I did not matter. Nothing we did out here mattered. Nothing we could or would ever do would matter, in the face of this.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate