The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Ev… - Hugh Howey

No life had ever been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

The suit came up, and Holston thought that maybe people went along with it because they couldn't believe it was happening. None of it was real enough to rebel against. The animal part of his mind wasn't made for this, to be calmly ushered to a death it was perfectly aware of.

The first sign that something is wrong is Andrew’s wife running to us, shaking and crying.

She imagined herself at age nine, running through these very halls, crying out to her older self across the years.