The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What is magic but science that is not yet understood? What is science but magic with an explanation?”
“These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy.”
“After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”
“They fought so hard to keep a world that was not meant to stay the same.”
“There is a necessary tension between knowing how nature works in theory and witnessing it.”
“She can’t bring herself to say the goodbye she feels coming out loud. They are so old now—maybe it doesn’t need to be said. Maybe it’s already woven into each moment they share. Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”
“This is survival. This is how the vessel protects the mind, how the mind protects the heart, how the heart goes on forgetting that its calling is to be undefended, that being broken is part of being whole.”
“They both know the looping shape of pain—it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories of what was lost are also reminders of what was held.”
“Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs.”
“The only thing surprising about any of this is that he's alive to see it. That's the real bet they all made, isn't it? It will come. But not until we're gone.”
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Book Keywords:
legacy, love, grief
