“I looked at them all. 'You can't spend your life up here.'" "The moment I said it I remembered Alan saying tat in a way he HAD spent his life up here, That his memories of the Moon were so bright and vivid that the things he did on Earth seemed grey by comparison. And I thought how completely cosmic it would be if I could fix that for them. If I could make it so that part of them was always up here. So that when they were back on Earth and their dads were yelling and pushing them on, they could just tune out and come back up here, where -- in their brightest memories -- they would always be kids.” InspirationMemoriesCourageChildhoodStrengthIntegrity Book:Cosmic Source: Cosmic
“He handed me one of the leaflets. It was a picture of our old house. Underneath, it said it was a character property with surviving period details, inc fire surround, in a settled residential area. Two bedrooms, two reception, kitchen and separate utility room. And that was it. Nothing about us or what happened there. You wouldn't know it was our house except for the address.” LifeHomeChangeMoving OnFootprint Book:Millions Source: Millions
“Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.” ChangeMoneyMillionsTrueThingsFavorite QuotesFrank Cottrell Boyce Author:Frank Cottrell Boyce
“I'm talking about how to stay in one piece. Try to get hold of the things that are important, the good and true things about your life. Up there is some kind of lovely. And maybe you need to have something in your heart, you know, something even more lovely. To help you find your way home. Otherwise maybe you could be beguiled." (Spoken by character Alan Bean)” Integrity Book:Cosmic Source: Cosmic
“What I remember is being on the moon. I remember every second. Every stone. Every star we saw. Sometimes it feels like I never really came back." - spoken by character Alan Bean” WonderImpactAweChanged Lives Book:Cosmic Source: Cosmic
“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.” IgnoranceUnknowingSmall Mindedness Book:The Unforgotten Coat Source: The Unforgotten Coat
“It’s like this. You go off on an adventure. Then you come home. Right? Well that’s what the universe is doing now. Ever since the Big Bang, it’s been heading off into the unknown on its adventure. But the day will come when it will all go back to the beginning. Everything will come home. Everything that was broken will be fixed. Everything that was forgotten will be remembered. It’ll be like the biggest reverse dynamite explosion ever. And then we’ll all be back together again and we’ll be home again.” End Of The WorldHappy EndingsCompletenessReunitedEschatologyThe All Book:Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Source: Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
“There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.” PeopleIfsFirstsDoeSaidI CanBigsMightCareEarthRememberStarsFeltMillionsPlanetsFirst TimeBillionsTinyDustWhat IfMassiveSparesPixels Author:Frank Cottrell Boyce
“I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.” WritingRealLastsSeriesForgottenEpisodes Author:Frank Cottrell Boyce
