Nessie

“Astronomy was history. Because space was time. And that was the thing she loved most about the universe itself. When you look at the red star Antares in the southern sky, you are looking over thirty-three hundred trillion miles away. But you are also looking more than five hundred and fifty years into the past. Antares is so far away that its light takes five hundred and fifty years to reach your eye on Earth. Five hundred and fifty light-years away. So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Well, we are the stars", Joan said. "And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at pars of who you once were, who you may one day be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“La teoría de los archipiélagos viene a decir que todos somos islas, llegamos solos a este mundo y nos vamos exactamente igual, pero necesitamos tener otras islas alrededor para sentirnos felices en medio de ese mar que une tanto como separa. Yo siempre he pensado que sería una isla pequeñita, de esas en las que hay tres palmeras, una playa, dos rocas y poco más; me he sentido invisible durante gran parte de mi vida. Pero entonces apareciste tú, que sin duda serías una isla volcánica llena de grutas y flores. Y es la primera vez que me pregunto si dos islas pueden tocarse en la profundidad del océano, aunque nadie sea capaz de verlo. Si eso existe, si entre los corales y sedimentos y lo que sea que nos ancla en medio del mar hay un punto de unión, sin duda somos tú y yo. Y si no es así, estamos tan cerca que estoy convencido de poder llegar nadando hasta ti.”
― Alice Kellen, La teoría de los archipiélagos