"But you couldn't tell them that."

As much as Bobbie cares about Alex, and as quickly as she's grown to care for him, it's pretty awful. She gets it, though. The idea of settling down on Mars sounds miserable, and it always has. The fact that she might never be a Marine again scares the shit out of her. Alex is the same, she thinks, he just never had the clarity she did until he'd already done his settling down.

"Do you think you'll ever want to go back?"