Sometimes the real looks fake, especially when you’ve looked at the fake for so long. - Hugh Howey

It’s always okay to admit when you don’t know something. If you couldn’t do this, you would never truly know anything.

The fact that the universe can come to this, that anyone finds it normal, is comically absurd.

The races I study still employ their immune systems, and the parallels between those systems and us as a race are striking. For we have become what Earthlings would call white blood cells. We remove foreign bodies from the cosmos. And every one leaves an imprint, a bauble of tech or a new idea, all of which we neatly coil into our lives, into our molecular structure. We are an immune system, and we are immune to death. This last, alas, is our curse.