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“You think youre prepared. You think youve done everything youre supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and thenwhoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never sa...”
“Olivia responded with confidence, Youre the military. Youre in charge. Why would I be scared?”
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of ...”
“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”
“One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.”
“Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?”
“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
“Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.”
“After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.”
“There’s a way to live like a god.”
“This plague... This curse... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we ...”
“Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations.Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, Which is blank, is somethi...”
“The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.” “Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of the men are zombies.”
“We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.”
“The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang...”
“the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombi...”
“Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.”
“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
“I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
“I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.”
