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time-lapse of a replicating virus,

I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.

The way it watched him was unnerving - a definite intelligence all the more frightening because he couldn't know how deep it went.

We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we're a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine. She

When your world falls apart, cling to the familiar.

been engaged not long ago, and it had

The day wears on. The light fades. It snows harder with each passing hour. Up and down Main, Christmas lights wink on.

I'm a special agent with the United States Secret Service." "You mean those guys who guard the president?" "That's only one of our duties.

How did one carry on in the face of such knowledge?

If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?

It was easier to accept what could not be changed than to risk everything and seek out the unknown.

The cabins scattered across the lower slopes lie buried to their chimneys, and with not a one of them smoking, the air smells too clean.

Her therapist, Christian, would tell her to challenge the thought to use. To stop, take a moment, and analyze the error in it.

He reaches into his greatcoat, pulls out a tin of Star Navy

I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him. 'Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'"

The most dangerous adversary you'll ever face is an opponent who's skilled with a knife. Avoid these confrontations at all costs.

[ ... ] suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth

I think I finally understand why God went away and left the world to destroy itself.

For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you

at least there was another human being to share the weight of this crushing knowledge.

I think he's trying to preserve our way of life." "For who? Us or him?

Run," Scott hissed. "They're coming.

Inside, the air-conditioning was set to blizzard.

People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That's the storyline, the only plot there will ever be.

A question repeated in the back of Theresa's mind as she washed the purple stains from her hands. How did they finally break you?

He dismounts his albino steed, the horse's pinked nostrils flaring, dirty mane matted with ice.

The older I get, the less I understand.

I hate clowns!" "That's not a real clown," another boy said. "That's just some guy dressed up like a clown!

What's the demographic?" "Men. Women. Children." "High-velocity GSWs?

His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered.

Actually, they're just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment.

You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.

What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.

Let my affection for my boys carry me on.

Both, in their own way, thinking, This is hell - the absolute loss borne from all those slivers of perfection that passed unnoticed, unrelished. In

I'm looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach.

which does not kill you makes you

sharp edges of reality

Several seconds of purchase.

I feel like I have little to give.

The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely

Theresa wipes her face and turns away from the window.

Jessica's smile makes Ron slide his hand over the console, let it work down between her blue-jeaned thighs.

There is a part of me that never left that room in Fallujah that smelled like rancid blood.

What am I missing, Abby?

What about the abbies?" Ethan asked. "As a food source?" "Yeah." "First off, gross.

steel wedge between the

Life's short. Don't be mad. It's a waste of time.

Her smile reminded Theresa of a movie star smile - toothy and wide, and if you stared too hard at it, not quite real.

always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. The

He figures she must contain a carbon core. A soul as hard as a diamond. So what happens when a diamond finally breaks?

I'm running a battery of tests, but everything appears to have come through fully preserved.

Kate stood next to Ethan with a shotgun of her

We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.' Albert Einstein

Pull it open, the hinges grinding, and then a blast

I'd found something I didn't even know I was searching for

That he could play the piano. And

Your sensitivity is overwhelming," Ethan said. "Someday remind me to explain to you what empathy is.

He also carried that whiff of unearned arrogance that seems to cling to those who crave authority for the sheer sake of power.

Since the Industrial Revolution, we've treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars.

So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what's around the next bend. And isn't that, in the end, what drives us?

He watched its heart beating. He watched it blinking. "You are one ugly motherfucker.

Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he's glad to see it end.

Money can't buy you happiness, darling. Believe me, I've tried." "But it affords your own brand of misery.

When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre. Leonard Cohen

There's something horribly lonely about a place that's almost home. From

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

How would one publish a living book, whose stories never ended?

Nurse Pam stood up.

Whole Foods smells like the hippie I dated before Daniela - a tincture of fresh produce, ground coffee, and essential oils. The

Which is all to say maybe it's just being alive at a baseball game on a fall day in the heart of her city.

Can't do this. There were tears in her voice now, her throat clogged with emotion.

Abby," Lawrence said, "do exactly what I say, right when I say, no matter how crazy it sounds.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.

The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet

Knew she didn't need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that accompanied that knowledge.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.

It begins to go so fast," Fitch said. "What?" "Time. You cling to every second. Savor everything. Wish you'd lived all your days like this. Excuse me.

A soldier shoved him forward, said, "Stand right there and don't fucking move." "Why?" "We have to inspect you." "For what?" "Shut the fuck up.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST

Better to start off with the glad hand than a middle finger.

it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself.

She studied the document. "Looks like a bunch of legalese." "Pretty much." "You wanna give me the CliffsNotes since I didn't go to law school?

instability of the world long

Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.

A sword and a shotgun lay across brackets in the wall, the rhinestones that covered them glittering under the overhanging lightbulb. Ethan startled

A tenet of stoicism advises to live according to your nature. If you try to be something you aren't, you'll self-destruct.

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

She took him by the hand and led him over

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do.

There are no rights anymore. No laws. Just force and fear.

I have everything I need here," he said. "Warmth. Drink. Food. Books.

You in one piece?" he asked. His pack lay open in the snow and he was cinching the last strap of a crampon onto his boot.

That prick's still your copyeditor?" "Yep. He's such a dick. He was giving me

The worst moments of your life you never see coming,