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One did not worship the gods of Rome for the gods, but for Rome. Religion properly and publicly pursued was a showing of one’s place with Rome,
“Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.
Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.
Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.”
― Vertigo
Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.
Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.”
― Vertigo
“She didn’t want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn’t want to be the vanguard—of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.
Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did.”
― Vertigo
Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did.”
― Vertigo
“People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony in her head—
—a song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and astroscience physics and where to go, where to go, where to…”
― Vertigo
—a song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and astroscience physics and where to go, where to go, where to…”
― Vertigo
“She had missed him for a while, missed his warm smile and tender yet expert touch. But she had also welcomed the absence of the invisible leash which had tugged her back to Earth more often than she liked, which had whispered of duties to another and required explanations and justifications for every excursion. And eventually even the good memories had faded into the background, replaced by the thrill of new endeavors.”
― Starshine
― Starshine
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