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“Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.”
“Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.”
“When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.”
“You saw what I saw, right? Adrienne doing something nice for Xarissa of her own free will. I think I did, said G.ALunette stared into the unknown. This has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse We ...”
“This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.”
“He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat.”
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevi...”
“I would wish you gods speed but I dont want you to waste time looking for him.”
“But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed”
“Mamoon went on, The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction. He raised his glass. All the best then, my frie...”
“It's over.""I am not the only lord in Hell. Others will rise to take my place. The Morningstar will crave revenge.""Let them come.”
“There are a lot of people on this planet and, as a Christian, I like to believe that they all have to go somewhere. Lets say that a half or three thirds will go to hell. But, what about the rest? "...”
“The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.”
“We use to think that well go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.”
“It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.”
“The question that naturally occurs is What would it be like if a star exploded nearby? Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if...”
“Nora knows better than most that nothing lasts forever. Life doesn't, love doesn't, hope doesn't, so why would death, hate, or despair? Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.”
“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easi...”
“And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.”
“When I wasnt in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses Id spend time alone, usually in the bathroom adjacent to Joels room, staring into the shattered mirror as my hand gentl...”
