That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

People who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were. She’d said it was always a mistake, to believe...

FUTURE GONE”: “…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I die, with my arms stretched towards the spotlights.Then whiteness.My...

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

I’m Dr. Canton. As you know, most of the population has been wiped out by an unknown virus. Now that an acceptable waiting period has passed since the last known case, it’s time for you...

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big...

See? Nothing to it.””I see all right,” Carly said, her tone full of awe. She gaped at him.”What?””Um…””Jesus, Carly, what is it?” He spun around to make sure there wasn’t something behind him that would...

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement, their spirits rebounded and thrived. Adults were different. Their habits and experiences made...

Make it so I never have to dream about this again—make it so we can have this…forever.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either...

In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for...

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.

We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.

There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.

She hugs me. It’s tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer...

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much...

I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy...

IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our triumphs. Who’s to care then, if time does not remember us? It flies...

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.

Most folks don’t have but a few days to a week’s worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they’ll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in...

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

If I didn’t love so damn hard Iwouldn’t have someone to risk my life for.

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~”Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the...

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.

He was just infected yesterday. We saw him last night, and he already had mouse whiskers and a tail.

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Hmph. Even the animals deserted me.I’d have deserted me, too, a different inner voice inserted dryly. The way Ibanged around in here wanting to kill something—anything—if only it would bring Aislinn back to me. Fionn...

Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

I ‘d never seen him cry; I didn’t think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.

You can’t take highways during the apocalypse, because they’ll be packed with panicky people.

Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.