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“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“We thought we were separate satellites, but we aren’t. We’re stars, and though we might burn separately, we’ll always be in one another’s orbit.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“They're so weird and so beautiful," she said.

"Like you," I said.

I meant it as a joke, but Liz nodded. She felt that she was sort of like an emu herself, she said. Maybe that was why she'd had flying dreams ever since she was a little girl -- at heart, she was an emu. She was sure the emus also dreamed of flying. It was another thing they had in common. Both she and the emus wanted to fly -- they just didn't have the wings they wanted.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star

“Every moon, sun, comet, planet, and star is itself a center, and exerts its own force upon all the rest.
Nothing in the universe stands alone.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics