“Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.”— J. Aleksandr Wootton Related Quotes “When she sat down on the tile next to him, unafraid, his kaleidoscope senses drank in the years that had been printed onto her mind before she was old enough to remember, and he told her a story, projecting into her darkness sensations of light and color and shape, butterflies swirling like silk-spun gold out through a window that opened to a big green field in the days before the bomb.”— Mel Paisley “When people stargazing, they stare at stars,and many other things which they’ve already presumed commonly and universally as stars.”— Toba Beta “I don’t understand humans.” Caradoc shook his head. “It takes their brightest minds decades to plan an unmanned voyage to the nearest planet, which can take a year to travel each way. Yet they expect there to be aliens travelling distances it takes light decades to reach us, just for a weekend of bum fun with a total stranger without asking their permission, before dropping them off where they found them. They’re just dying to believe the weirdest, least plausible things possible.”— Dylan Perry