Karina

“As he unlocked his front door, he could hear the phone ringing. It took him a few moments to get in - the wooden frame had swollen with all the rainfall, and the door got gummed up sometimes - but when he got in, it was still ringing. Must be urgent , he thought, absent-mindedly.
He shouted, “Padfoot? You in?” as he crossed the the room, then lifted the receiver, “Hello?”
“Hello? Hello, Remus, is that you?”
“Mary? Hi! I just got back - where the hell is everybody?!”
There was a strange silence on the end of the phone, and a horrible static prickle ran down his spine. “Mary?!”
“You haven’t heard…”
“Jesus Christ, Mary, what?!”
“Remus… something awful has happened.”
She started explaining, and Remus fell to his knees as the whole world began to fall apart.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“She took pity on the lovers who wished for a new world together instead of an old world divided.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints

“[T]he problem was, some limits weren’t fences. Sometimes they were edges; with nothing on the other side.”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“Each star was like a distant eye blinking at the human world from the depths of the universe.”
― Liu Cixin, Supernova Era