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“Once is never. Twice is always.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“Alex leaned forward, grabbing Basia’s hands in his own. “It’s still on you. I will never live down not being the person my wife needed after she spent twenty years waitin’ for me. I can never make that right. Don’t go feelin’ sorry for yourself. You fucked up. You failed the people you love. They’re payin’ the price for it right now and you demean them every second you don’t own that shit.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“A person can fail the people they love just by being who they are.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“And ... and what is civilisation if it isn’t people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
“The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,” she said. It was a truism of ecological biologists, and she said it the way a religious person might pray. To make sense of what she saw. To comfort herself. To give the world some sense of purpose or meaning. Species rose in an environment, and that environment changed. It was the nature of the universe, as true here as it had been on Earth.”
― Cibola Burn
― Cibola Burn
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