This star called Alpha Cygni was the body of a god, but there would be no images, no leaping faces, no mocking dread, no superstitious ghouls encountered on their passage through its vaporous fire. In that sea of disassembled potential, of
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“Nothing stands still, in space. Every object that exists, exists in constant motion. Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars. Stars orbit the super-massive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and galaxies trace their own tracks across the sky, expanding ever outward. Every rock, every cloud of gas between the stars, every person, every sub-atomic particle in the universe is moving, all the time.”
― Paradise-1
― Paradise-1
“There’s a time and place for tears, Flower. An’ there’s a solace to be found in sadness. It’s easier fallin’ downhill than climbin’ up. It hurts to punch on with broken hands. But it’s when darkness falls around us that we find the fire within.”
― Empire of the Damned
― Empire of the Damned
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