the space between us quotes

“She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations.

Before the group of 15 astronauts launched into space, Nathaniel Shepherd, played … I am salt. “Four years into her marriage, Sera had woken up one morning to feel something hot and sticky in the back of her throat. “Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality”

Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Hate that was lodged like a bone in her throat. Though this is very risky, as Gardner's organs cannot support Earth's gravity, they allow him to come to Earth for testing. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning.
He had the secret, see? Both riddled by marriage difficulties, though of different circumstance.

“Or perhaps it is that time doesn’t heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones—the angle of your head, the jutting of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile—has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.” Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

“Or perhaps it is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your head, the jutting of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.” Fire. – John O’Donohue To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Benedictus in Europe).

Instead, they treat us like royalty. Gardner ends up escaping from the testing facility and meeting up with Tulsa.

Economic, education, and class/caste disparities perpetuate ---- as the title suggests and the story centers on, in "The Space Between Us." “This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall. Surely this is our salvation, our only hope—that joy and love are also woven into the fabric of the body, into each sinewy muscle, into the core of each pulsating cell?” It's at this moment when Tulsa realizes that when Gardner said he was from Mars that he wasn't lying.Kendra, Gardner and Nathaniel argue about what to do with Gardner, now that he's a teen. “Bhima smiles. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. We’d love your help. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss” “She is tired of it all—tired of this endless cycle of death and birth, tired of investing any hope in the next generation, tired and frightened of finding more human beings to love, knowing full well that every person she loves will someday wound her, hurt her, break her heart with their deceit, their treachery, their fallibility, their sheer humanity” Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. “how people’s faces turned slightly upward when they stared at the sea, as if they were straining to see a trace of God or were hearing the silent humming of the universe; she would notice how, at the beach, people’s faces became soft and wistful, reminding her of the expressions on the faces of the sweet old dogs that roamed the streets of Bombay.
But if this is true, surely the body also remembers each kindness, each kiss, each act of compassion?

Gardner wants very much to visit Earth to find his biological father, meet his Internet pal Tulsa (Britt Robertson), and experience life on the planet. Maybe the pain of memory is encoded into our bone marrow and each remembered grievance swims in our bloodstream like a hard, black pebble. Perhaps the body is unforgiving, perhaps every cell, every muscle and fragment of bone remembers each and every assault and attack. It was hate. “but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past” Surely this is our salvation, our only hope—that joy and love are also woven into the fabric of the body, into each sinewy muscle, into the core of each pulsating cell?”

She makes him human and he makes Earth perfect for her.After spending time seeing Earth, Gardner is rushed back to the research facility after his heart begins to fail under the increased gravity.

And if not what was the missing part? From the time she was in her teens, Sera has been fascinated by this paradox—how a body that we occupy, that we have worn like a coat from the moment of our birth—from before birth, even—is still a stranger to us. And yet the body remains a mystery, a book that we have never read. If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched, drought-stricken fields in Gopal's village and beyond. One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you. For a minute, she thought it was the start of another sinus infection, but when she swallowed cautiously, her throat did not hurt. “And so I have to live. After all, it has been many years since the blow that made her arm swell and ache for days. The Space Between Us Quotes Showing 1-30 of 51.

Hate that made her feel sick, that gave her mouth a bitter, dry taste.

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