It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.