Aster's Library

“I tell you what, this has been really fun. And I got to help make something pretty cool, so I’ve got no complaints. I mean, not me, exactly, but close enough. It’s the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way, you know?” ~ Outer Wilds, Gabbro

“It’s tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.” ~ Outer Wilds, Solanum

"When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end."~ Outer Wilds, The Prisoner

“I learned a lot, by the end of everything. The past is past, now, but that’s… you know, that’s okay! It’s never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won’t get to see it. Still, it’s um, time for something new, now.” ~ Outer Wilds, Riebeck

“The universe is large and it contains multitudes, but it also contains me. And, in this moment, I am wonderful. And I have a right to be wonderful.” ~ The Life of Chuck, Stephen King

“Would answers make good things better?” - The Life of Chuck, Stephen King

There’s a King Lear that’s played the role an unfathomable amount of times and after closing his final performance he still has new ideas and choices he wished he could try.

Richard Powers quote about thinking of better ways to word sentences forever after publishing.