Anna

“It takes many years for a man to realize that his punishment is a present.”
― Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories

“Life is just one big question, that’s all it ever is. But what is that question? Ah, that is the question.”
― Baron Ryan

“I have constant nostalgia for the future,” she said out of nowhere. “It’s when you experience a moment, and you know the moment will end, and you know you’ll miss it, so you experience two kinds of longings—one now and one then.”
― Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space