Gabriel

“Frustration is a living, breathing thing inside me, eating up all rational thought.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“A supernova occurs when a giant star, one much bigger than our own Sun, collapses and then spectacularly explodes, releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time more brightly than all the stars in its galaxy. “It’s like a trillion hydrogen bombs going off at once, supernovae
are extremely rare. A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode. Most expire quietly, like a camp fire at dawn. In a typical galaxy, consisting of a hundred billion stars, a supernova will occur on average once every two or three hundred years. Looking for a supernova, therefore, was a little like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope and searching windows around Manhattan in the hope of finding, let us say, someone lighting a twenty-first birthday cake.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“To Lovecraft, we’re all worthless, but some of us are more worthless than others.”
― Peter Counter, Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays

“I am Penumbra”—he nodded—“and I am the custodian of this place.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore