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“...from sweaty-palmed anxiety blooms vivid imagination.”
“I doubt there's any significance in a second-to-last breath.”
“The hatred was, in a word, monochromatic.”
“...celebrating in a sea of little more than cacti and a billion stars.”
“Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.”
“What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.”
“Rock bottom had turned out to be more greasy and hairy than rocky.”
“...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.”
“If 'quaint' was a piano's Middle C, Marfa was a B-flat; it was peacefully strange.”