The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.

~ Aaron B. Powell

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When the dust settles and we look back,will we be okay with what we see? End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle

~ Craig Martelle

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There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.

~ Scott A. Butler

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I’m just happy to have experienced life, to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.

~ Aaron B. Powell

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We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell's pork and beans, defending one's family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That's what after-the-bomb stories are all about.

~ John Varley

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My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

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Do I look that bad?’ I said, my voice quavering with the rejection that I was ashamed for even caring about. ‘Is that what this is all about? How ugly I look?’Patrick kept his eyes on the back wall of the cave.‘If you really have to know, it’s the opposite of that,’ he said, his voice taking on a tender tone. ‘I think you are the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

~ Vanessa Garden

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Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

~ Alexia Purdy

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When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

~ Walter M. Miller Jr

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Make me a weapon,” I whispered as he pulled away. “Make it so I never have to dream about this again—make it so we can have this…forever.

~ Cassandra Giovanni

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The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise, it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.

~ Scott A. Butler

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