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

“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

“But I think it is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. Nothing you or I could do will ever alter them. They are so much bigger than us. And they will not change within our lifetime. We can succeed or fail, get it right or get it wrong, love and lose the ones we love, and still the Summer Triangle will point south. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay—as impossible as that can seem sometimes.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door