It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?