“This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.”

“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.”

“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“I’d never get over you regardless of what happened to you. You’re not something I want to get over no matter where I am in my life.”

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”

“I felt like I was missing something. Missingyou more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.”