We live in the quiet at the end of the world. The slow winding-down clockwork motions before life stops completely. Time is slipping through our fingers.
This voyage was never meant to be easy. It was meant to be important.
No species has ever survived by trying to cling to what’s gone. You can’t exist if you’re trying to get back to an environment or culture or climate that’s changed. You have to adapt if you want to keep going.
Are you absolutely certain this is safe?” Matthew Galloway asked, peering suspiciously out over the lake.
I think about the legacy we’re leaving behind all the time: pollution and plastic and buildings and everything else. As one of the last humans, my choices and decisions are imbued with the full weight of the billions of lives that came before me. It feels like my ancestors are watching me, waiting to see how I ensure their legacy, how I remember them.
Our secrets aren’t really so secret, if you know where to look.
When you know that there’s no future, the only thing that’s interesting any more is the past.
The only thing really valuable to us any more is the element of surprise.
I am utterly convinced of the truth of my argument, beyond a shadow of a doubt. But I’m not trying to persuade you. I have no vested interest in influencing your opinion either way. Only you can decide, based on the evidence I’m presenting, what you believe in your heart to be true.
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There’s something I never told you about the night I was hiding in Rob’s office on 23rd September. I wasn’t going to say anything, but I don’t think I have a choice anymore.
All throughout history they had been doing this, finding and loving each other and being ripped apart before they even had a chance to live.
It doesn’t do any good to mourn for someone who is gone. They don’t care. Their story has finished.
Will you marry me, Katherine? I want us to spend this life and the next together.
A pencil. A PENCIL,” he said, with growing horror, staring into empty space as if at the horrific vision she had laid before him. He shook his head. “Some people just want society to collapse.
Phosphenes, they were called – the sparks of colour that lit up your vision, the stars that appeared in the darkness.
There are so many places on the ship that I avoid because I’m afraid of facing the past. But the past is much less scary than the future. I know what’s already happened; I know how bad it was. I don’t know what’s coming, though.
Just remember, J, you’re coping with everything the best way you can, and that’s all that matters. Don’t ever think you aren’t strong.
Things on Earth I want to experience most: Quicksand – how often do you usually get stuck in this stuff? A few times a month? It seems to happen all the time in films!
Whatever happens, I can’t see a point in time when I will ever be happy. For the rest of my life, I’ll be struggling. I’m always going to be moments away from sinking completely. So why should I live at all? It would be so easy to stop. But it would be so pointless. Every year I’ve fought to survive would be wasted.
Everything just makes more sense if you look at it backwards.