To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

preternaturally

There were, she thought, many different types of nightmares in the galaxy. Some small, some large, but the worst of all were the ones you lived with.

“We are made from the dust of dead stars.”

S. Bach on a loop, starting with the Brandenburg Concertos. Volume level three.”

One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.”

Monotony is boring, and besides, as the ancients loved to point out, expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment. And

Falconi tapped the edge of his cards against the floor in an absentminded fashion, although he was too sharp, too aware, for the motion to be careless.

tesserite.

“No, to be free,” he said. “I’d rather struggle and fail on my own than be coddled as a slave.”