Damien Charpentier

…ough I am wishing for my death in that moment, I am not wishing for it as hard as my own mother is. If either of us prayed, I’d hope that God wasn’t real, lest he decide to hear it and smite me down for this — whatever I’ve done — for which I cannot atone.

Here on Earth, the daytime sky appears blue because of the way molecules of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere disperse visible light from the sun, an effect called Rayleigh scattering. Shorter blue wavelengths are scattered more effectively, giving the sky its blue color.