What do I have to gain by going forward? Everything I love is behind me. - P294
The drones split into groups, basket-weaving across one an-other. Bright-green mist spews from their bases with a sicken-ing hiss.
My stomach roils. I helped create that.
The green mist we‘ve brought turns Sagan‘s orange-and-pur-ple sky a revolting brown. I think of how high the drones are. - P300
I remember Mom say-ing bees are life. Without bees, there‘s no food, without food, no humans - P303
Javier‘s story ends on that ship. In this ending, he knows Iloved him, and he has his book. His story will end as Javier-not as part of the Collective. - P305
Lita‘s voice fills my head. "Set your intention." Tears well inmy eyes. I let my memories fill me. I am bringing all of them:Mom, Dad, Lita, Javier, and our home. Ben and my crumblinglibrary, deep in my mind. The stories of Lita and my ancestors.
I‘m bringing them all to this world. - P308
"A few brave humans left their home on the nagual‘s mother,
Earth. They took very little and left behind so much they loved, in hopes of finding a new home for their children, and theirchildren‘s children, and all humans to come." - P311
We‘re lucky. A handfulwho get to live on two planets. And I know they all deserve tohear the truth now about what‘s gone wrong. That it‘s just usleft. That all our parents are gone, and hard work lies ahead sothat so we can live. - P312
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