Caryn

“Do you know,” she said slowly, “that the stars that we see the clearest are already dead?” “Well, that’s depressing.” I took my hand from hers. “No,” she said gently, linking her arm through mine, “it’s not depressing, it’s beautiful. They’ve been gone for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on.” They live on.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“It isn’t enough to have been a particle in the great extant of existence. I want, we want, more. We want for people to know us, to know our story, to know who we are and who we will be. And after we’ve gone, to know who we were.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Even more basic, any EVA puts man just one thin, glued-together, rubber membrane away from near-instant death.”
― Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey