"The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance."

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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

— Steve Martin