Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.
“She burst into her hotel room pulling her blouse over her head with one hand while she yanked her shoes off with the other.
No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.”
― Vertigo
No way was she going to face an alien invasion in heels and silk.”
― Vertigo
“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
― 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 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
“Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.
A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!”
― Vertigo
A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!”
― Vertigo
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