My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

It hurts because it mattered.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.