Chloe

“I think by the time this is all over, you might be the only person who’s still sorry that you did go through the fire you have. Because the rest of us … as unfair as it is … are counting on this new girl to save us from the hell that’s coming to kill us all.”
― Robert J. Crane, Enemies

“People build sandcastles every day—and homes, and lives and all manner of things. And they don’t build them because they’re going to last forever. Nothing does. Some day, our sun will burn out, our planet will die, and long before even that happens everything we are and have done will have been forgotten. As long as you might live, you won’t be anything but dust by the time the earth comes to its natural end … but people build anyway. They do it for the day, because we’re here now, and because in this moment it shows that these are the things that matter to us. That are important to us. Beauty doesn’t last, and neither does life … and neither does your work.” He leaned forward, and I saw him smile. “But just because a thing doesn’t last forever doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. This quest to protect people … you don’t do it because it’ll ‘echo in eternity’— to steal a phrase from Russell Crowe in Gladiator.”
― Robert J. Crane, Prisoners