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“Sometimes it's hard to keep the facts straight after so long, to remember all that has happened (though the emotions remain like stains).”

Facts Time Emotions Memory Remembering

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“I became an artist because I was terrible with people.”

People Art Artists Social Interaction Socializing People Skills

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“Life is always easier for boys.”

Life Boys Gender

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“Death has become a way of life”

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“I was never one to connect. I've been that way my entire life. I went to work, kept my head down, and came home. I let old friendships fizzle. I orbited my family and all of you like a distant planet--there and yet nearly impossible to reach. I know I can't survive alone.”

Relationships Family Connection Connecting Social Life Friendships Socializing

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“You see, this is partly why Earth hasn’t received any messages from other worlds. Most have perished by the time their light reaches our sky. Sometimes hundreds of light-years exist between even the simplest forms of life.”

Universe Alien Life

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“Hope, love, ingenuity. Possibility is more than what runs through our veins, little one.”

Life Hope Possibility

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark

“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”

World Hate Family Environment News Connections Injustice Activism Disasters Crises

Book:How High We Go in the Dark

Source: How High We Go in the Dark