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“And I’m scared, but in a way I’ve never really been before.”

“You can’t study space without studying the physics of space. And time. Or math. Or anthropology in the history of humans’ understanding of the stars. Or mythology for that matter.”

“You have to have something on the line, for it to be called character.”

The space between you and the star is time. It is to witness time unfolding.
Oct 07, 2025 06:41PM
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But I also believe in it because I want to believe in it. I want to spend my energy thinking not of how my actions might be frowned upon by a man in the sky, but how my actions affect every living and non-living thing around me. Life is God.

“When you’re flying a plane, you can’t see people on the ground. From up there, everyone is so alike, they have so much in common, and they can’t see it.”
Oct 08, 2025 11:45AM
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Nikki is on page 249 of 352
In a crisis of this magnitude, you are best served by evaluating second by second.

“Nobody is one thing all the time.”

“When we learn about the constellations, we also learn how earlier generations made sense of the world.”

Joan could feel the lightness in her head that would feel heavy tomorrow.
Oct 07, 2025 06:44PM
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Nikki is on page 136 of 352
“Don’t thank me for doing the bare minimum.”

The hum of the wind drowned out everything except the sound of her own voice inside her mind. Which was such a gift. She had always been her greatest friend, her greatest guide.

She’d been surprised to find that Coors Light was delicious.

“When somebody’s too smooth, there’s nothing to grab on to. Now that you e got a little edge to you, I can hang on.”
Oct 07, 2025 06:43PM
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Nikki is on page 37 of 352
It is also the relief I feel that those stars are immovable. They are so much bigger than us. We can get it right or get it wrong, love, and lose the ones we love, and still the Summer Triangle will point south. And in that way, I know everything will be some type of okay— as impossible as that can seem sometimes.

For such an adventurous job, it can be achingly routine. There are no cowboys here.
Oct 07, 2025 06:27PM
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