I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.