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“But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise.
Let it end with hope.”
― Across the Universe
Let it end with hope.”
― Across the Universe
![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“...So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl.
I get the frex out of there.”
― Across the Universe
I get the frex out of there.”
― Across the Universe
“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS
Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.
Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.
Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!
Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.
Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.
Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!
Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.”
― Across the Universe
― Across the Universe
![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.”
― Shades of Earth
― Shades of Earth
![Toba Beta](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1709205708i/3336353._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
― Master of Stupidity
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
― Master of Stupidity
![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of her lip.
She wipes her face and with her arm, smearing tears and mucus. She never looked more BEAUTIFUL to me.”
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She wipes her face and with her arm, smearing tears and mucus. She never looked more BEAUTIFUL to me.”
―
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.”
― A Million Suns
― A Million Suns
![Israelmore Ayivor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1497748668i/7023141._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
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![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The dark sky.
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.
The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.
And then we see the end.
Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! of an exploding bomb.
There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.
Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.
Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.
Just light.
And then it’s gone.
And then he’s gone.”
― Shades of Earth
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”
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![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not reform anyone and, what's more, scarcely deter even one criminal, and, far from diminishing, the number of crimes are steadily increasing. You have to admit that. It therefore follows that society is not in the least protected, for though a harmful member is cut off automatically and exiled to some remote spot just to get rid of him, another criminal takes his place at once, and often, two, perhaps. If anything does protect society even today and indeed reforms the criminal himself and brings about his regeneration, it is, again, only the law of Christ, which reveals itself in the awareness of one's own consciousness. Only by recognizing his own guilt as a son of a Christian society, that is, of the Church, does the criminal recognize his guilt towards society itself, that is, towards the Church. The criminal today, therefore, is capable of recognizing his guilt only towards the Church, and not towards the State.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
![Pepper Winters](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674093044i/7151973._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You hold all the power in this situation, Pim. One little word and all my fucking secrets are yours.”
― Dollars
― Dollars
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
![Nanette L. Avery](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1552316192i/646117._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...”
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![Beth Revis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1284958744i/4018722._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“That—this—is Orion’s secret. It’s not that the ship isn’t working, that we’re never going to make it.
It’s that the ship has already arrived.
We’re already here! There—there—is the planet that will be our home!
It floats, so bright that it hurts my eyes. Giant green landmasses spread out across blue water, with swirls and wisps of clouds twirling over top. At the edge of the planet, where it turns away from the suns and starts to darken, I can see bright flashes of light—bursts of whiteness in the darkness—and I think: Is that lightning? In the center, where the light of the suns makes the planet seem to glow from within, I can see, very distinctly, a continent. A continent. On one edge, it’s cracked and broken like an egg, dark lines snaking deep into the landmass. Rivers. Lots of them. Maybe something too big to be rivers if I can see it from here. Fingers of land stretch out into the sea, and dots of islands are just out of their grasp. That area will be cool all the time, I think. Boats can go along the rivers, up and down. We can swim in the water.
Because already, I can see myself living there. Being there.
On a planet that looks up at a million suns every night, and at two every day.
I want to scream, shout with joy. But the air is so thin now.
Too thin.
I’ve spent too long looking at Orion’s secret.
The boop . . . boop . . . boop . . . fades away. There’s nothing to warn about now.
Because there’s no air left.
My sight is rimmed with black. My head pulses with my heartbeat, which sounds as loud to me as the alarm once did. I turn from the planet—my planet—and start pulling, hand over hand, against the tether, toward the hatch. The ship bobs in and out of my vision as my whole body jerks. I’m panicked now and fighting to stay awake. I try to suck in air, but there’s nothing there to suck. I’m drowning in nothing.”
― A Million Suns
It’s that the ship has already arrived.
We’re already here! There—there—is the planet that will be our home!
It floats, so bright that it hurts my eyes. Giant green landmasses spread out across blue water, with swirls and wisps of clouds twirling over top. At the edge of the planet, where it turns away from the suns and starts to darken, I can see bright flashes of light—bursts of whiteness in the darkness—and I think: Is that lightning? In the center, where the light of the suns makes the planet seem to glow from within, I can see, very distinctly, a continent. A continent. On one edge, it’s cracked and broken like an egg, dark lines snaking deep into the landmass. Rivers. Lots of them. Maybe something too big to be rivers if I can see it from here. Fingers of land stretch out into the sea, and dots of islands are just out of their grasp. That area will be cool all the time, I think. Boats can go along the rivers, up and down. We can swim in the water.
Because already, I can see myself living there. Being there.
On a planet that looks up at a million suns every night, and at two every day.
I want to scream, shout with joy. But the air is so thin now.
Too thin.
I’ve spent too long looking at Orion’s secret.
The boop . . . boop . . . boop . . . fades away. There’s nothing to warn about now.
Because there’s no air left.
My sight is rimmed with black. My head pulses with my heartbeat, which sounds as loud to me as the alarm once did. I turn from the planet—my planet—and start pulling, hand over hand, against the tether, toward the hatch. The ship bobs in and out of my vision as my whole body jerks. I’m panicked now and fighting to stay awake. I try to suck in air, but there’s nothing there to suck. I’m drowning in nothing.”
― A Million Suns
![Linda Robinson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1700255036i/3014826._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.”
― Chantepleure
― Chantepleure
![Parul Wadhwa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1505211032i/16540773._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings.”
― The Masquerade
― The Masquerade
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
![Will Advise](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1452357562i/14842679._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…”
― Nothing is here...
― Nothing is here...
![Evgenij Vodolazkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461349756i/7552779._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Be her and be yourself, simultaneously. Be outrageous. Being pious is easy and pleasant, go ahead and make yourself hated.”
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![Laurence Galian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1594352009i/246355._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“The 'man' from 'Sarman' relates to heredity, or a particular family. It also refers to the receptacle of an heirloom. The 'Sar' of 'Sarman' is defined as 'head.' In this sense, the 'head' is meant both literally as a part of the body, and in the meaning of elder one or master. Therefore, we may tentatively conclude that 'Sarman' means 'The Sovereign Receptacle of the Sacred.' Or, an alternative reading would be 'Those Whose Heads are Priceless.”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
![Thomas Pynchon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626381765i/235._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“One reason Humans remain young so long, compar'd to other Creatures, is that the young are useful in many ways, among them in providing daily, by way of the evil Creatures and Slaughter they love, a Denial of Mortality clamorous enough to allow their Elders release, if only for moments at a time, from Its Claims upon the Attention.”
― Mason & Dixon
― Mason & Dixon
![Ehsan Sehgal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531214770i/15105695._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
— Socrates
There is no ignorance but unawareness; evil is the most significant branch of knowledge, and it is hard to face without dynamic knowledge.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
— Pliny the Elder
Nature is a certainty that remains certain, such as life and death.
— Ehsan Sehgal”
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— Socrates
There is no ignorance but unawareness; evil is the most significant branch of knowledge, and it is hard to face without dynamic knowledge.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
— Pliny the Elder
Nature is a certainty that remains certain, such as life and death.
— Ehsan Sehgal”
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