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1 " All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons. "
― K. Ancrum , The Weight of the Stars
2 " This book is for all of us who looked up at the sky in wonder, and then cried when we learned how much calculus separated us from the stars "
3 " She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble. "
4 " Love is not about holding people where you want them. It is about doing what's best for them because you need them to be okay. "
5 " Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated. "
6 " Ten million light-years from now bathed in the radiation of a time without timeare the bones of a girl who loved Ryann Bird.In the dust left over from our supernovaatoms spread farther and wider than hopeare the pieces of the heart of the girl wholoved Alexandria the Great. "
7 " Four light-years from the second largest pulsar, past the black dust and the white. In a small circle of golden light, made by a careful teenage star, I found you," Aexandria said seriously. "No matter what I did or said, there you stood. Like a fixed point, and the Earth moved around you. "
8 " Every story has many sides, depending on where you're standing when it happens. "
9 " Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself. "
10 " Why are you rebuilding the tragedy that built me? "
11 " They don't want the danger, and the darkness and loneliness," Alexandria interrupted softly. "They want the heat and the light, but they don't want radiation." Roland closed his mouth and looked at Alexandria with indescribable pain and indescribable fondness. "The stars have weight," Alexandria finished. "And my little life wasn't heavy enough to outweigh your want of it. "
12 " I am reminded that I no longer have to wonder, or look back at what was left behind. Because I know who and what I am, and I know where I am going. And I know that when I finally get there, you'll be coming to join me. Because we'll always wind up at the same place when the sun goes down for good, Raleigh.We are all together in this incomprehensible wait. "
13 " When the time came, she was ready.Ryann Bird walked the hall of ages: from the gates of man to the arches of the gods, and thought about what it meant to be Ryann Bird. "
14 " You couldn't nice some people open. Ryann knew that well. Sometimes the only way to pry your arms away from tightly holding yourself together is when you're given a reason to hold up your fists. Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself. "
15 " Ryann opened her eyes and turned to face Alexandria - and God she wished she hadn't - because Alexandria had eons in her eyes. But it was too late to look away. "
16 " She said, "Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated." And I believe she was right. "
17 " Please look at them and know that you too can seize your failure by the neck and look it in the eyes. Know that you can gaze at the you that was and say, "I love you. You can be more than this."Know that you can step forward, even when everything in you is screaming to keep looking back.You are evolving and growing. You deserve to. "
18 " You couldn't nice some people open. Sometimes the only way to pry your arms away from tightly holding yourself together is when you're given a reason to hold up your fists. Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself. That's the sort of knowledge you have to earn through experience. "
19 " For some reason, thinking about what's far away helps prioritize your feelings about what's all the way down here. "
20 " Don't...take time for granted. You have all this freedom and opportunity and people around who love you. Make sure you use the time you have to love them back. "
