Amelia Brand – Character Quotes

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

— So listen to me when I say that love isn't something we invented. It's observable, powerful. It has to mean something.
— Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
— We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?
— None.
— Maybe it means something more, something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some... artifact of a higher dimension that we can't
consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it yet.

— You know, out there we face great odds. Death, but... Not evil.
— You don't think nature can be evil?
— No. Formidable. Frightening. But... No, not evil. Well, is a lion evil because it rips a gazelle to shreds?
— Just what we take with us, is that it?
— Yeah.

— It's hard leaving everything. My kids. Your father.
— We're going to be spending a lot of time together.
— We should learn to talk.
— And when not to... Just being honest.
— I don't think you need to be that honest.

— Your father had to find another way to save the human race from extinction. Plan B. A colony.
— Why not tell people? Why keep building those damn stations?
— Because he knew how hard it would be to get people to work together to save the species instead of themselves. Or their children.
— Bullshit.
— You never would've come here unless you believed you were gonna save them. Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier. We can care deeply, selflessly about those we know, but that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.
— But the lie. That monstrous lie?
— Unforgivable. And he knew that. He was prepared to destroy his own humanity in order to save the species. He made an incredible sacrifice.
— No. No, an incredible sacrifice is being made by the people on Earth who are gonna die! Because in his arrogance he declared their case hopeless.

— Is there any possibility... I don't know... Some kind of way we can maybe all jump in a black hole? Gain back the years? Don't shake your head at me!
— Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but it can't run backwards. It just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.
— Okay.
— The beings that led us here, they communicate through gravity, right?
— Yes.
— Could they be talking to us from the future?
— Maybe.
— Okay. If they can...
— "They" are beings of five dimensions. To them, time might be another physical dimension. To them, the past might be a canyon that they can climb into
and the future, a mountain they can climb up. But to us, it's not, okay?