Quotes

__Golden Lines __
We're not survivors. We're the walking dead in a horror film. - Chase ===="Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before." Olivia ====

Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory. - Chase
==== "Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever" "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." olivia ==== ===="Neither of them had spoken a word. This was the perfect day of his childhood." Cassandra ====

Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. - Chase
==== "Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned." - Spencer ==== If he wasn't the word of God God never spoke.-Lucas

Death is not a lover.
==== Oh yes he is. - ChaseThen they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire ====

** Can I ask you something? he said. ** ** Yes. Of course. ** ** Are we going to die? ** ** Sometime. Not now. **
==== ** -Sarah **And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. ====

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. - Chase
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.- Justin There is no God and we are his prophets.- Justin People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.- Justin "If they saw different worlds, what they knew was the same. That the train would sit there slowly decomposing for all eternity and that no train would ever run again."--Cassandra "Even if you knew what to do, you wouldn't know what to do."--Cassandra  He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. He tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling of it. He thought perhaps they'd come to warn him. Of what? That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over. -Alyssa He stood in the back door and looked out at the fields and the road beyond and the bleak country beyond the road. -Alyssa

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__ They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. Paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands. The figures faded in the distance __ .-Lucas ======