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Sequoia Nagamatsu QUOTES

Sequoia Nagamatsu QUOTES

1 " You see, this is partly why Earth hasn’t received any messages from other worlds. Most have perished by the time their light reaches our sky. Sometimes hundreds of light-years exist between even the simplest forms of life. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

2 " I saw a civilization that could destroy itself before it even reached the nearest star. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

3 " After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

4 " My engineer father once told me that marriage and who you fall in love with are largely a matter of chance, chemicals, and how far you’re willing to drive. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

5 " Opportunities are like little seeds floating in the wind. Your life is there. Some people have a big net to collect them all. Other people need to pray that the right seeds, the best ones, make their way to them with just enough bad ones to appreciate the good. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

6 " It is difficult to comprehend just how far you’ve come, and I wonder if, apart from our tiny blue planet, we have much in common at all anymore. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

7 " Everyone scoffed when the governor first announced plans for an amusement park that could gently end children’s pain—roller coasters capable of lulling their passengers into unconsciousness before stopping their hearts. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

8 " I hated questions where people pegged your entire identity on a few words. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

9 " Hope, love, ingenuity. Possibility is more than what runs through our veins, little one. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

10 " People like to forget about the sadness of the city,” Yoshiko responds. “They walk and walk. No one stops. It’s like we’re all still infected. We choose to be blind to each other’s suffering. It might make things easier to bear, but our hearts are cold. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

11 " And what happens to us when we leave our world? Children were trained to answer, 'we become everything that we pass until we become the thing we created. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark

12 " Your mother loves you,” he said. “And I think she’s forgiven you, even if she’ll never admit it. She wants you, and your family, in our life, even if you’re an ocean away. "

― Sequoia Nagamatsu , How High We Go in the Dark