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“God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?"Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought Id ...”
“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a ...”
“When the Bolide Fragmentation Rate shot up through a certain level on Day 701, marking the formal beginning of the White Sky, a number of cultural organizations launched programs that they had been...”
“Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
“You cant let the apocalypse rule your life.”
“I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. M...”
“Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.”
“Countrys friggin dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
“Will the last person on the planet please turn off the lights?”
“In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldnt find another use for and couldnt compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair...”
“He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating somethin...”
“The Sacral has disappeared from daily reality of the modern world, and it is completely obvious that we live in the End of Times, but the Sacral has not vanished (since it could not vanish theoreti...”
“Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.”
“There are ruins all over the world, testaments of the atrocities, and burial chambers of the lost souls. But the facts are always misinterpreted. History is inaccurate.”
“He looked at the sky once more. Men had gone out there, he thought in wonder, and couldn't think why. Singly and in small groups they had gone into strange lands, across wide seas, had climbed moun...”
“We've been around for a long time, Mr. Dowell. Longer than you or any of your stupid little friends could ever conceive. Sleeping in the shadows and waiting for the right moment. A disease you migh...”
“What lies beneath has pushed its way to the surface once again. Time to get away while there is still air left in our lungs.”
“To conceive of a god in ones image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bri...”
“Ten thousand years to build civilization, ten months to tear it down, and each day lasted ten times longer than the one before, and the nights lasted ten times as long as the days. The only thing m...”
“Youre a tough guy, but Im a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.”
