Planets colliding, that's not a fight you win by punching back, or punching first. That's a fight you win by living at all. If you're alive tomorrow, and that planet is cosmic dust? You win. Carry humanity with you, and humanity wins. But what is humanity, Verity? It's not biology, it's not the shape of the continents or the naked ape: humanity is a set of ideas. The ideas are the seed, and you have a chance to carry it out of the fire. That's your fight.

*That said, she offers a sympathetic shrug.*

Does "good and right" ever not suck?