Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that i…”

“When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyon…”

“As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning…”

“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel,…”