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“The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.”
“The way we live our lives is not sustainable. I don’t just mean recycling and turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth. I mean the way we treat each other. The way we pick and choose whose ...”
“It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!”
“Wasn’t 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 I’m still alive.”
“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...”
“Thanks, for saving me.”“I didn’t 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, can’t 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 I’ve been hired to do....”
“No, we’ll live. I promise you that.” He’d said it in a way that she couldn’t doubt, the same way he’d snapped his soldiers back into their rank on the helicopter. His words had been soft yet firm, ...”
“If only he’d 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 l...”
“We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you to do.”
“She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.”
“You think you’re prepared. You think you’ve done everything you’re supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you neve...”
“Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?”
“It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation,” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.”
“It must be one of life’s little jokes... how we take everything, even life itself, for granted. We waste our childhoods wishing for what we don’t have, longing for the future, dreaming of ways to s...”
“She’d found that holding on to him was the easiest and simplest thing to do, not thinking about the bomb, not thinking about the people it killed, not thinking about her family, and not thinking ab...”
“But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.”
