“I was still profoundly alone. And I remained alone, watching the stars – did you know, aside from their regular nightly and yearly cycles there is another, longer movement? So, so much slower, and I was watching this, and admiring it, alone, until someone arrived to break my solitude.”

“I was still profoundly alone. And I remained alone, watching the stars – did you know, aside from their regular nightly and yearly cycles there is another, longer movement? So, so much slower, and I was watching this, and admiring it, alone, until someone arrived to break my solitude.”

— Ann Leckie