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“I think I remember what love was like before. There were complex emotional and biological factors. We had elaborate tests to pass, connections to forge, ups and downs and tears and whirlwinds. It w...”
“Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserv...”
“Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.”
“I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.”
“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I ...”
“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And...”
“…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky”
“Thank God for imminent doomsday.”
“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 I’d...”
“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 can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.”
“Country’s friggin’ dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.”
“To conceive of a god in one’s 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 br...”
“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...”
“You’re a tough guy, but I’m a nightmare wrapped in the apocalypse.”
“Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.”
“What’s the goal?” asked Carlos. “I’m glad you asked,” said Harry. You – all of you – and I – we’re going to save the world.”
“The Agora had fallen, too. Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admira...”
“You know, Alexia started, “I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth.”
