“The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
— Jane Austen, book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
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