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“Eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we'll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We'll all dissipate. We'll all be nothing and everything. What's more spiritual than that?”
“In this world, you have to die to find peace.”
“Oh, really? Do you wake up heaving from bloody dreams thatpromise destruction like some crazy street guy forecasting theApocalypse? Did you slam a door in your dads face hours before he died?Does e...”
“At this stage of the game, I dont have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago, I would have listened to people ask their questions, explained to them, mollified the...”
“Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Remember this Earth. Never forget her, but never come back. If you come back, you might meet the Archangel at the east end of Earth, guarding her passes ...”
“Some people think the devil is one being. I think the devil is when many beings come together to do terrible things. You are looking at the Terrible.”
“The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.”
“The stranger smiled at her. "Humanity has found a cure to a disease they never new existed.”
“Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action con...”
“That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.”
“CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things.Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the sch...”
“But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the wo...”
“Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes," Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.”
“The only easy day was yesterday!”
“Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.”
“Is the music broke, Mommy?”
“I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragn...”
“The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.”
“Are you going to rape me at any point or anything?" I just figured it was good to get things out in the open, get myself in the right headspace. He whipped his head around and looked at me like I'd...”
“Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this.”
