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“You can prepare and prepare, but it’s the stuff you don’t anticipate that always throws you for a loop. And it always happens. You’re going about your day, and bam! An asteroid comes out of the blue, ruins your life. How are you supposed to live in a universe like that?”

“The universe is spinning apart: a pinwheel driven to the point of failure. Darkness and emptiness, and what matters still? The warmth of friends, the light of human kindness.”

“There’s no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.”

“All good soldiers are philosophers, same as a priest or a professor. You have to be when you deal with matters of life and death.”

“She felt a sudden longing to be outdoors, surrounded by living things, and not trapped in ships that stank of sweat and machine oil.”

“‘And the mission itself?’
‘It needs doing. Aish. What else is there to say?’”

“For those who ventured into the unknown, there was a duty to protect those left behind, those who lived their lives in familiar bounds.”

Made it to part 2!

“Light-years were long beyond imagining, and even with all the benefits of modern technology it was an enormous, terrifying distance, and the shuttle no more than a mote of dust hurtling through the void.”

“They always used the passive voice when acknowledging a mistake.”