Two thoughts : I didn’t realise how much of the previous books I have forgotten.

The Deucalion is an amazing place isn’t it?

Two more quotes, on freedom and on loneliness, two things I’ve been thinking about quote a lot lately.

“To be naked like that in the open, canopied only by an infinite sky, was a frightening experience, and the closest they had come to freedom in a long time”.

I like how they link frightning to freedom…

'Everybody is lonely. We'll just be more aware of it.'

For a long time, if you would have asked me if I had been lonely often, I would probably have said no. Lately, I’ve come to realise that wasn’t entirely true. I gues I was just less aware of it.

“Because in real life, unlike in history books, stories come to us not in their entirety but in bits and pieces, broken segments and partial echoes, a full sentence here, a fragment there, a clue hid- den in between. In life, unlike in books, we have to weave our stories out of threads as fine as the gossamer veins that run through a butterfly's wings”.

Another great quote, looking forward to the last quarter of this book!