" It's so beautiful." Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. "Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me.

Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed. "

― Stephen Baxter