Roy McBride: So many times in my life I screwed up: I've talked when I should've listened, I've been harsh when I should've been tender.
H. Clifford McBride: We need to find what science tells us is impossible. I can't have failed.
Roy McBride: Dad, you haven't. Now we know. We're all we've got.
Roy McBride: Can I have a blanket and pillow?
Female Flight Attendant: Certainly, that will be $125
Roy McBride: Why go on? Why keep trying?
Roy McBride: He captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent... full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces... there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there... and missed what was right in front of him.
Roy McBride: Here we go again. Fighting for resources. What the hell am I doing here?
Roy McBride: I do what I do because of my dad.
Roy McBride: I'm so selfish... I'm so selfish... I'm so selfish... I'm a selfish person...
Roy McBride: I am focused only on the essential, to the exclusion of all else.I will make only pragmatic decisions. I will not allow myself to be distracted. I will not allow my mind to linger on that which is unimportant. I will not rely on anyone or anything. I will not be vulnerable to mistakes.
Roy McBride: Forgiveness is bullshit.
Roy McBride: Goddamn it, they are using me!
Roy McBride: In the end, the son suffers the sins of the father.
Roy McBride: The zero G and the extended duration of the journey is affecting me both physically and mentally. I am alone. Something I always believed I preferred. I am alone. But I confess it's wearing on me. I am alone. I am alone.
Roy McBride: Most of us spend our entire lives in hiding.
Roy McBride: He captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent, full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there and missed what was right in front of him.
Roy McBride: I am looking forward to the day my solitude ends. And I'm home.
Thomas Pruitt: And I came to the realization out there a voyage of exploration can be used for something as simple as escape. I'm telling you this, Roy, because we have to hold out the possibility that your father may be hiding from us.
Roy McBride: I've been trained to compartmentalize. It seems to me that's how I approach my life.
