Erin

“With all that had passed between him and Rick, the friendship felt constantly volatile in his hands, like unstable explosive. Yet even with Kaylyn standing there in the water, looking as gorgeous and iridescent as a dragonfly, he felt a surge of love and regret unlike anything he’d experienced before. Because they were just kids, and that day they drank and they danced and they laughed at the sky-blue heavens, and it really felt like anything could be fixed and anything could be forgiven.”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio

“The
last of his useless generation would die watching this down payment on chaos unspool.
Holly, Catherine, and their peers would witness civilization entering its violent
disintegration with a breakdown of the social order, mass starvation, disease, and
armed conflict over water and arable land.”
― Stephen Markley , The Deluge

“Grilled cheese. Ain’t a better meal on this earth.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“It’s like, we’ve been in a car with a brick on the gas pedal and no one at the wheel, careening down the road, running over people and crashing into things. We’re still in the car. We can’t get out of the car. But someone could at least grab the wheel.”
― Neil Stephenson