STARSHINE

• Part I: Dominoes
  • “There are two kinds of light –the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” — James Thurber
• Part II: Causality
  • “Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.” — Will Durant
• Part III: Recursion
  • “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — G. K. Chesterton
• Part IV: Accelerando
  • “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood- dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned.” — William Butler Yeats

VERTIGO

• Part I: Descent
  • “For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.” — John Buchanan Robinson
• Part II: Requital
  • “Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.” — Publilius Syrus
• Part III: Maelstrom
  • “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” — Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch
• Part IV: Parallax
  • “In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.” — Jeanette Winterson

TRANSCENDENCE

• Part I: Ricochet
  • "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." — Charles Bukowski
• Part II: Blindsight
  • "These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." — Robert Frost
• Part III: Emergent
  • "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver
• Part IV: Rise
  • "Come to the edge, He said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ." — Guillaume Apollinaire
• Valkyrie Quotes:
  • Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
  • We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. - Theodore Roosevelt

SIDESPACE

• Part I: Wild Things
  • “Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Part II: Relativistic Motion
  • “If I was perfect then this would be easy. Either road is plausible on both I could drown. I walk through the center with no rules to guide me. I realize it’s difficult but now I can see.” — Avenged Sevenfold
• Part III: Principle of Equivalent Exchange
  • "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." — Ray Bradbury