Rachel

“It took time for light to reach the Eye from distant galaxies. The further out the Eye looked, the further it looked back into the history of the universe. Galaxies ten million light years away were glimpsed as they were ten million years earlier; those a billion light years away offered a window into the universe when it was a billion years younger than the present epoch.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night

“he didn’t care who ran the universe—he’d break whatever rules it suited him to disobey in any case, whoever was in charge—”
― L. Neil Smith, Star Wars: The Adventures of Lando Calrissian

“They were no different from day sounds, but anything that wears the cloak of night, especially on an alien world, partakes of the night’s mystery and terror.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

“over the barrier and through the grass into fucking hell I go one lane silver car two lanes horns horns horns three lanes SEMI WHAT’S A FUCKING SEMI DOING ON THE FDR IT’S TOO TALL YOU STUPID UPSTATE HICK screaming four lanes GREEN TAXI screaming Smart Car hahaha cute five lanes moving truck six lanes and the blue Lexus actually brushes up against my clothes as it blares past screaming screaming screaming”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became