Could this be the Apocalypse ?

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.