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“During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of boiling oil and subsequently banished to the island of Patmos in the Ae...”
“Thoughts have power, influencing humanity's collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the bett...”
“Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local m...”
“Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.”
“It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.”
“You know what? Fuck it. Just fuck it. The Rising didn't manage to wipe out the human race, it just made us turn into even bigger assholes than we were before. Hear that, mad science? You failed. Yo...”
“Wasnt allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.”
“A sullied green S stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.”
“Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason Im still alive.”
“Then she was there in the doorway of the ambulance at his feet. She jumped up like a lion, then stood up on two feet like a human. Her hair was thick and full. She had a mouthful of giant teeth. He...”
“St John from the book of The Revelation He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or ...”
“Biblical eschatology fundamentally challenges the "official" scientific idea that the universe will end in a violent heat death, and instead that the cosmos will be set free from its decadence. It ...”
“One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.”
“Thanks, for saving me.I didnt have a choice, he said softly.Everyone has a choice.Then mine was easy.Easy?He chuckled. Olivia, my choice will always be simple when it comes to you...”
“Everyone is dangerous in here, cant you see that? he warned.”
“He whispered for her ears only as he listed off the facts: Military are allowed a larger portion. Being second in command restricts me from no room and giving orders is what Ive been hired to do. A...”
“No, well live. I promise you that. Hed said it in a way that she couldnt doubt, the same way hed snapped his soldiers back into their rank on the helicopter. His words had been soft yet firm, and s...”
“If only hed taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She la...”
“Were in an underground vault, and heres my first order: Youre going to do everything I tell you to do.”
“Shed been caught up in that image, that flash, mans nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.”
