{"quotes":[{"text":"In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...","author":"Nathan Walsh","tags":["alien","angels","blood","bloodlines","demons","dimensions","earth","fiction-novel","galaxy","gods","horror","love","mortals","mystery","revenge","science-fiction","stars","universe","vampire","war"],"id":11501,"author_id":"Nathan+Walsh"},{"text":"Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["cell","dejan-stojanovic","entering","flying","galaxy","honorable","literature","literature","penetrating","poetry","poetry","quotes","scientist","scientists","soul","space","task","thoughts","wisdom"],"id":14385,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me.' from the song 'In the Blackness' in the poetry collection 'Terra Affirmative'.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["blackness","calling","galaxy","poem","song"],"id":49315,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.A million suns.Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.But all of them are out of reach.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["a-million-suns","across-the-universe","amy","atu-series","awe","choking","earth","elder","emotion","galaxy","home","out-of-reach","planets","sea-of-stars","stars","terror","universe","unreachable"],"id":76602,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"Dust is the parent of a star!","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["dust","element","fatherhood","form","formation","galactic","galaxy","little","little-things","never-belittle","parent","parenthood","star","stars","universe"],"id":78464,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["answer","astronomy","crime-solving","detective","discovery","forensics","galaxy","humility","knowledge","mystery","not-knowing","outer-space","philosophy","pride","problem-solving","respect","room","science","searching","searching-and-finding","solving-problems","space","space-travel","theology","universe","wisdom"],"id":93438,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.And then we see the end.Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! Of an exploding bomb.There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.Just light.And then it’s gone.And then he’s gone.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["across-the-universe","atu-series","aurora","burst","dead","death","elder","galaxy","gone","lost","nebula","shades-of-earth","sky","stars","universe"],"id":97325,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["avoidance","christ","distraction","earth","fear","galaxy","god","humanity","life","love","need","people","universe","want","world"],"id":116657,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.","author":"A. R. Ammons","tags":["stars","galaxy","become "],"id":117715,"author_id":"A.+R.+Ammons"},{"text":"The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.-General Tagon \u0026 Captain Kevyn Andreyasn.","author":"Howard Tayler","tags":["enemies","galaxy","hatred","military","sci-fi"],"id":125638,"author_id":"Howard+Tayler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":55,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}