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Homeseeking
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“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― The Names
― The Names
“But how does she know if she has been changed, or if she just so much wants to be changed that since it happened, she has been pretending?”
― Pure Colour
― Pure Colour
“And sometimes it seems clear to me that the normalcy most of us cling to so stubbornly—assuming it like a cloak against the changing weather—is also a paralysis. A blithe insistence on the continuity of daily life. It must go on, it can’t go on, it goes on.”
― We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
― We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
“The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour. When we’re on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“A boat doesn’t get to its destination by current alone; it still requires steering. You have good opportunity luck right now, but not if you squander it.”
― Homeseeking
― Homeseeking
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