The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie

‘She’d been right, after all. He had been named after a star.

‘Or at least the idea of one. For, as it seemed to be with all things Quark (other than cheese) the star was also a hypothesis, formed either inside a neutron star or within the death of a massive one.’

— M. Rickert, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie