- Alice: I mean, it's... you shouldn't be shy with this kind of thing, this... this attraction to someone. I think attraction is... It's the animating force in the universe, really.
- Tyler: That's a fact.
- Alice: Well, like... Gravity or the pull of the poles, what pulls the monarch butterflies... to fly across the world. If you feel attracted to someone from your heart, you know... and you look at them and you feel and you can see their soul... That's... There is... There's no bad version of that, to want to be a part of that. And we should... Oh, God... treasure it. It's, it's... We're lucky to have that feeling. It's the greatest, it's the fullest... expression of what it is to be alive.
- Susan: Elon Musk sent many, many telecom satellites into the sky that look exactly like stars, exactly like stars. So now when humans gaze at the night sky, they won't know if they're gazing at a star or at a machine. And we at this table, at this little table, we are among the last, the very last, ever, ever, to have seen the actual, real, the honest, truthful night sky from the ocean. We saw stars... Just stars.
- Alice: When I read this novel, it's impossible for me not to think what a miracle it is That the universe emerged, what a miracle it is that consciousness emerged. And what a miracle it is that Blodwyn Pugh, her thoughts and experiences, that they could reach across time and reach into my consciousness. That's a miracle.
- Alice: I hope you don't regret that. That's just the trying is all. If you don't try, if you don't risk.
- Tyler: I just think that there's... It is true that after your generation, I don't know who will carry the torch for... what really... what humanity really is.
- Susan: I don't think it's that different, you know? I, I know it, it... It's vastly different when you look at it from the outside. And what's happened to your generation. I mean, since you were two, you've typing away, and so you've grown up with this thing like an appendage on you, you know? But I think that... depending on what you join up with on, you know, the computer... Facebook or Instagram or whatever you're joining up with... um, or not... the human communication is basically the same because humans are basically the same.