Mabu

“some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.”
― Hugh Howey, First Shift: Legacy

“We can’t tweak the genes of the food we eat without suspicion,” Erskine added. “We can pick and choose the naturally mutated ones until a blade of grass is a great ear of corn, but we can’t do it with purpose. Vic had dozens of examples like these. He rattled them off in the cafeteria that day.” Erskine ticked his fingers as he counted. “Vaccines versus natural immunities, cloning versus twins, modified foods. Or course he was perfectly right. The bastard always was. It was the manmade part that would have caused the chaos. It would be knowing that people were out to get us, that there was danger in the air we breathed.”
― Hugh Howey, Second Shift: Order

“This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.”
― Hugh Howey, Second Shift: Order

“Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.”
― Jon Evans, Beasts of New York