2 Quotes by Christina Li

Those were just successes. But how many failures did the scientists have to see? How many times did their rockets not orbit the planet, or not take off at all? How many times had they dreamed about landing on the moon, only to realize that they couldn't make it happen, not yet?

Why had I ever thought my dad would be the superhero? Mom had been standing in front of me all along, holding our world up on her shoulders.