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Anything you want to forget will come back to you, it will haunt you so vividly that it feels as if you’re going through it all over again, often causing you the same overwhelming and unmanageable feelings as it did the first time; you fear the intensity might kill you and so you fight its return, you resist, but you can’t prevent or shield yourself from the pain that follows and so you are forced to relive it.

“the life-saving rockets were hardly two meters long, yet they connected our grandma’s village with the endless expanse of the universe, we stared at the sky from our village and travelled through the stratosphere in fantasy aircrafts, much further than the anti-hail rockets did, much further than Laika had ever gone, her dog skeleton still circling us in orbit” (72)

“You keep having the hope that this is a prologue but no one knows how far they are into their own story. Some of us are hoping it’s the end.” (94)

How little I have died!

Got a great one for my Geburtstag; I didn’t want to look ahead

“nothing’s getting better, and we know it.”

There should always be an astronaut subplot in any terrestrial plague story.

I can’t believe how awful the first two stories are. I’m also worried that if they put them first it’s only going to get worse somehow…

“Big mistake, to conflate sincerity with truth.” (74)

“When a friend's mother asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I'd answered honestly that I wanted to be a weather girl: to look beautiful and talk about wind and planets, to be the least necessary member of the news team and be loved for it. I was heartbroken to learn of the rigors of meteorology.” (18)

“Ever spend time aboard a space ship amidst the marvels of technological sterility and the interminable presence of super novas, colliding galaxies and black holes? After a decade or so the effect of such astounding phenomena wears thin. You surprise yourself that you are fondly recalling scenes of urban squalor or the rustic shack in the piney woods.” (130)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it