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He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.
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As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
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You gonna fight for something, you fight for something that you're willing to die for.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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I can get closer.
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Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
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I’m not human. I’m better.
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But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there.
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I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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Sometimes home is a person.
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I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.
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You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.
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That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into a book-shaped vessel.
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I'll always come back to you.
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And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars. A million suns. Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home. But all of them are out of reach.
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This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets.
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This is the secret of the stars. In the end, we are alone no matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.