When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

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

Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?