"It's like they are talking to us. I think I finally know what this is about."
and he said
"What"
She sat straight up and leaned back. "All these lights in the sky. It's all one terrific and challenging enterprise--great spheres of hot gas and fire and debris all surrounded with some kind of magnificent nothingness. To get anywhere, we have to trek through the nothingness and brace the threats of endless unknowing. To experience that glory of discovery and faith and...just new. We have to face the black."
He nodded his head. Face the black.
So they stared innocently upwards; not looking at specifically anything, not searching for a star to wish on, not for Andromeda, not for man-made satellites. Their eyes somehow opened to the vastness of the outside, managing to focus on the everything of it all. Seeing as a whole, seeing the integral parts of the oblivion, it changed things. And they knew. Instantly their eyes opened to the world outside of this one, and instantly they knew eternal purposes and never-ending promises. And as they grew older, they never hesitated or questioned because they remembered.
And now for some Star Wars quotes. (I know you secretly love them.)
"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
“That’s no moon, it’s a space station.”
“Into the garbage chute, flyboy!”
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
"You don't need to see his identification...These aren't the droids you're looking for...He can go about his business...Move along."
"Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease."
"Yousa thinking yousa people ganna die?"
"I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me."
One more...
"Love won't save you, Padme. Only my new powers can do that."
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