Mariken

“It’s a strange feeling. Everywhere I go, I’m the first. Step outside the rover? First guy ever to be there! Climb a hill? First guy to climb that hill! Kick a rock? That rock hadn’t moved in a million years!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“She listened to his faltering message: ‘You have reached the mobile phone of Harold Fry. I am very sorry but – he isn’t here.’ From the long pause he took in the middle, you’d think he was actually off looking for himself.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“Half-ration for dinner. All I accomplished today was thinking up a plan that’ll kill me, and that doesn’t take much energy.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian