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“Whimsy, even after the world ended.
Especially after the world ended.”

“He heaved his not-yet rotten body onto the stage and bowed to his six-legged audience. The everyman had perished, but the vermin lived on.”

“Then, for six nights a week and a Sunday matinee, the Orpheum had turned him into a god.
Despite what the graffiti claimed, God had not forgotten.”

“His fingers traced the playbills while he trudged on. Grey dust speckled his gloves, as if he'd gathered San Francisco's fog in his palm. You couldn't walk through these halls without turning a little magical.”

“And how we pretended the hole she'd burned in the ground was from roasting marshmallows?" His breathing labored. One more pull and he'd make it over the top. "It was such a cute scene."
Fear laced their words, but a smile crept into Glimmer's tone, "Are you saying being chased by cops is the same as that?"
"No, I'm saying we should buy some marshmallows soon. Haven't had s'mores in forever."

“There was a refuge not far from here, walls that had once held his dreams and might now hold him for a few hours until the pigs had moved on, found new truffles to remove from their homogenous fields.”

“Humanity, repulsed by its own beauty, had tortured itself to death. Its soul writhed with maggots.”

“Leasing her out was the only way they could keep the lights on, he'd said.”

“I realised that dystopia relies so deeply on fear of the other, of the sick, and I couldn't perpetuate it. Humanity is defined by its community, its care of others. Hope is a radical thing, a habit hard to form, but vital and difficult, and entirely worth it."

“But for the first day, Penelope manages to forget the context.
They're just two chronically ill girls walking through ruins, co-parenting a cat with tragic survival instincts.”