It is sometimes necessary to break everything.
It just doesn’t make sense, Elizabeth insisted. Are we supposed to believe that civilization has just come to an end?Well, Clark offered, it was always a little fragile, wouldn’t you say? They were si...
It's like the corporate world's full of ghosts … maybe a fairer way of putting this would be to say that adulthood's full of ghosts … these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and th...
Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he’d seen a lot of action movies. He
No, please elaborate. Okay, say you go into the break room, she said, and a couple people you like are there, say someone’s telling a funny story, you laugh a little, you feel included, everyone’s so...
RAYMONDE: What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.
She slipped so easily into the folds of his life
She watched his gaze flicker over her suit, her gleaming shoes, and realized he was performing the same reconciliations she was, adjusting a mental image of a long-ago spouse to match the changed pers...
So we ask them who they are, and their leader smiles at me and says, ‘We are the light.’
Stick to musicians. I think we’re generally saner.
Stop looking for me. I'm not missing; I do not want to be found. I wish to remain vanishing. I don't want to go home.
Survival might be insufficient, she’d told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare. He’d trotted out his usual arguments, about how Shakespeare had lived in a plague-...
Survival might be insufficient, she’d told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare.
Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended.
The boy turns to his parents and for an instant in the twilight he looks like his namesake, like Jeevan’s brother. He comes to them, the moment already passed, and Jeevan lifts him into his arms to ki...
The first sentence of the assassin’s note rang true: we were not meant for this world. I returned to my city, to my shattered life and damaged home, to my loneliness, and tried to forget the sweetness...
There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us, and when people stop going to work, the entire operation grinds to a halt.
There seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use but that people wanted to preserve: cell phones with their delicate buttons, iPads, Tyler’s Nintendo console, a...
There was a new heaven and a new earth, the archer whispered. She saw the look on August’s face just afterward and realized that the gunman had been his first—he’d had the colossal good fortune to hav...
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