“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
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“I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“Sometimes, when I’m careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what’s left of what you were given, until something changes—or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing, that all you had to do was wait until the storm passes you over and you find that—yes—your name is still attached to a living thing.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
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