“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”
“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten, that it will be unknown? Why should that seem to be a crime, when all of human history is an eyeblink compared to the billions of years the stars have shone?”
“Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.”
“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”
“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.”
“[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it?”