“The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.”
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 50 (p. 522)
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