Matthew’s Reviews > Earth 7 > Status Update

“Earth had gotten the best the universe had to offer, in all categories, and the achievement had nearly killed her, and humans had gotten the best that Earth had to give, and that had nearly killed them too. They'd both paid a lot, lost a lot, but they'd gotten a lot, too, which is the best you could say about anything, I suppose.” (211)

“She rode for three days, the holy number, the number of haikus and jokes and pigs, of denials and wisemen and bears, of the faces of certain gods.”

"I know what you're thinking. Sure, it's easy to look askance at people who spent their lives constructing these things instead of saving what we had and making a home we could all exist on in relative peace. But come on, what were the chances that would ever happen?" (37)