Know yourself and go in swinging.
Patrick NessYou said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
Patrick NessWe have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick NessBut imagine there’s this thing that always sits there in the room with you. And everyone knows it’s there and no one will ever say a single goddamn word about it until it becomes like an extra person living in your house that you have to make room for. And if you bring it up, they pretend they don’t know what you’re talking about.
Patrick NessHe wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he’d been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.
Patrick NessIt was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
Patrick NessBut what is a dream...?...Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
Patrick NessAnd now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.
Patrick NessThis is who you are, do you see?" Tomasz continues.
Patrick NessHe's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them, all of those seemingly endless possibilities, not fictional, but real, out there, existing, right now. There is so much more out there than just the world he knows, so much more than his tiny Washington town, so much more than even London. Or England. Or hell, for that matter.
So much more that he'll never see. So much more that he'll never get to. So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.
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