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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not of the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”

“I think this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure. The sun goes and the egg fades.”

“Passive is dangerous. Passive means we lose.”

“Our culture is so obsessed with what’s new, we destroy the past and pretend it never happened.”

“Life or death - light or dark; there was nothing in between.”

“Time did more than kill. It had the power to erase people out of existence entirely.”

“We tried to leave the house.
But we’re haunted.
It’s us.
We tried.”

“Someone is telling a story. I can tell right away it’s a ghost story. Anybody can tell something like that. Ghost stories might not use all the same words, but they all sound like the same words because it’s the ghost we think about, not the words.”

“Can I go into your heart?”

“I realize, at first glance, that the idea of writing one’s own obituary while still alive may sound morbid. It’s not, though. I promise you. It’s a needed reminder of who you are, of what truly matters. Because it’s your life and there’s still time to write it.”

“It helps, I told myself, to be human in the first place.”

“If there is a hell, and I’m pretty sure there is, I’m going there. Watch it end up being these creatures’ home world.”

“This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

“We were a society dying of too much choice.”

“There is more than one kind of freedom… Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.”

“I’m ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it’s false news, it must mean something.”

“There is no god here. There is only the devil, the all-consuming fire of a raging star, and the infinite blackness.”

“There’s nothing more bracing than the edge of death, nothing more satisfactory than another moment of survival.”

“Insects are nature’s little cogs that keep the world turning.”

“I’m afraid everything I was is gone and all that’s left is everything I’m not.”

“The dead are at the mercy of what’s happened to them, but we still have choices.”

“That’s the apocalypse, right? One big existential crisis.”

“It is a symphony of death, a masterpiece of hellish design, raw will.”

“They like the dark.”

“We are all eaters of souls.”

“Listen closely. This is not a test.”

“Seconds are critical. You can lose everything in seconds.”