Suzanne

“When you’re up there at the podium, accepting your Nobel or whatever, I will know “I would like to thank my mother,” you had better say. I have the sticker still, by the way. BRILLIANT! Which I’m not and, chances are, neither are you. You might be David Bowie though he’s a once-off. You may discover the cure for cancer but it’s a long shot. Maybe you’ll arrest climate change. Someone had better, and fast. The likelihood is you’ll be another working stiff in a sea of working stiffs. The world needs working stiffs. If you are one such stiff, I will know Cannot unknow My grandmother in her nineties, dementia, crying out for the baby, the baby, oh God where’s the baby. I get it now. The magnitude. She couldn’t unknow either.”
― Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

“That's the past, isn't it. You think it's behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it's there waiting for you.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“... so I am saying to you Chie, my first and only child, that you might regard in wonder these men walking on the moon but you must never forget the price humanity pays for its moments of glory, because humanity doesn't know when to stop, it doesn't know when to call it a day, so be wary is what I mean though I say nothing, be wary.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“The planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything, the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the mountains, the coastlines, the skies, a planet contoured and landscaped by want.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital