Alex

“It's hard to describe what I felt then. I wasn't entirely shocked, because I thought I had done well, and I had started to think I might be chosen. But I did feel an awareness of everything it had taken for me to get here, from reading The Right Stuff and setting a goal that seemed impossible, to this moment. And I felt humbled by the role I was going to be asked to step into”
― Scot Kelly

“And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn’t let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you wanted, was something she found herself imitating.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22