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“I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly ma...”
“Be noble like the sun”
“I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important...but theres got to be something beyond that, right?”
“That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.”
“Reading books is like wearing winter clothes”
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I a...”
“I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.”
“From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.”
“We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.”
“...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?”
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first son...”
“The time is approaching when you will have to decide whether you trust Jesus enough to follow him into the unknown.”
“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.”
“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
“This plague... This curse... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we ...”
“So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory--hope. So thi...”
“My mom used to say thats why we have memory. And the opposite of memoryhope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”
“Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we dont, by the time we grow up itll be gone forever.”
“This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.”