“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Moral Disorder and Other Stories
― Moral Disorder and Other Stories
“Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the Garden. It’s the stress, it’s the adrenalin, it’s a chemical effect: she knows this well enough. But why is it built in? she thinks. Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we’re about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“The light flickers on all of us and makes us look softer and more beautiful than we really are. But sometimes it makes us darker and scarier too, when the faces go into shadow and you can’t see the eyes, only the eye sockets. Deep pools of blackness welling out of our heads. My”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
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