“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about.”
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“The key to the rise of authoritarians, they explained, is their use of language and false history.[3”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
“She barely displaces air, as if her solidity is an argument between existence and ephemera.”
― Far from the Light of Heaven
― Far from the Light of Heaven
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