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After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.Caroline George
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Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.Caroline George
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People have always expected the end of the world to be a dramatic, thematic event: war, disease, a sudden explosion. But what if the end of the world has already occurred? What if our final demise happened slowly, secretly … and we’ve been oblivious to it all?Caroline George
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Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.Caroline George
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We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“ But we were too dumb to see it, ” she snaps. “That was our mistake.Caroline George
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Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.Caroline George
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The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.Caroline George
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The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically, etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.Michael Bassey Johnson
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The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang instead of unnoticed silence. We all, deep down, want to believe in a future where our historical monuments and literature hold significance. We want our deaths to be important. We want to matter.Caroline George
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You see the world for what it is and what it could be, ” Jack says. “What you don’t see is the gaping chasm in between … and that’s what I found.Caroline George
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Making-out is one thing that won’t change even if civilization fizzles and humanity is reduced to two people. So each time Jack and I kiss, it’s as if we’re flipping off the jerks who destroyed our planet, as if we’re screaming at the top of our lungs… We know your secret. And we won’t be made invisible.Caroline George
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Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.Caroline George
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Coffee first. Save the world later.Caroline George
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Marion: What is all this? What's going on? Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.Rachel Pollack