Liam respected his people. They would come up with ideas ranging from the weird to the practical.

Nora knew herself to be stubborn to the point of obstinate self-destruction.

“Matching evils don’t cancel each other.”

“Xeno-archaeology is even worse. We craft the best stories we can, on the evidence that has survived, and proclaim those stories the truth.”

I’ve discovered I like the rhythm of growing things. It keeps me grounded in time. It’s a natural way to measure the length of a journey.

Paranoia could have you flinching at false threats. And once you started to doubt what you actually knew, the next stage was becoming too frozen to act.