Jason Gurley Quotes

I missed the moonlight, the stars. There were times I forgot that there was an entire universe above the clouds. It was as if a shroud had been pulled around the Earth. Over time, we would forget everything that we had once struggled so hard to observe and learn and prove. We would forget about Jupiter and its churning storms. We would forget about the Big Dipper, about Halley's comet. We would stumble across telescopes in old department stores and never give them a second look, never wonder about the things they once made large.

There are so many demons. Agnes tips the bottle back and her eyes flutter closed, and she swallows, and swallows again, and the burn of it tells her it will be okay, that everything will be just fine, because the burn is always followed by the dark, and the dark is followed by - Peace. Or something very much like it. She drinks, and eventually her grip loosens on the bottle, and she slips into that dark where Esmerelda, where Eleanor, where nobody else is permitted.

benches - she was possessive of her mornings, of the quiet before her day became a thing owned by other people - but

a well of beauty tucked away inside the girl, masked by drawn expressions and tired shoulders. She carries unseen weights.

Her mother will die, but it will not be because death has found her mother. It will be because her mother dared death to come visit.

This is how the darkness is. It knows nothing else. It fills crevices, pushing into the finest, narrowest corners, ascribing no meaning to the events that it carries, but birthing and then swallowing them again as they expire.

Cutting a person's throat is not as easy as I thought it would be.

Every space movie has a nutjob on the space ship, Henry says. And until you kill the nutjob, everybody's in danger.

Eve's voice emanates from the walls of the station in an otherworldly, haunting way, as if she speaks from everywhere and nowhere at once.

herself from the rains. But through the raw and broken trees she could see the valley, faint beneath a gelatinous fog. She's all but certain that she's falling toward the very same

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

because when a person has a dream that they've dreamed of their whole life, and they don't get a single chance to accomplish it in the single life that belongs to them, they just sort of wither inside,

There should be someone in the world who loves you despite you," she whispers to her mother.