“When you have a child, the world slips away for a while. You become your own satellite planet and forget that other things exist unless you make an effort to look.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“I have never believed in magic, and I still don’t. But sometimes what looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“we are all stardust. The whole universe is inside us. Every element within us was made in a star. Nitrogen, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and all the other stuff. We are made of deep space and deep time and have been forged in supernovas (or supernovae, if we are being pretentious). An element, as you no doubt know, is matter that can’t be broken down into a simpler substance. They are the primes of the cosmos. We are made of elements. We have the unbreakable and the eternal inside us.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Kirby would like to say something reassuring to his son. Even more, he would like to say something true. But the convergence of these qualities is rare when it comes to the future of certain parts of the world.”
― The Light Pirate
― The Light Pirate
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