The fact that the universe can come to this, that anyone finds it normal, is comically absurd. - Hugh Howey

There is much to do, pulling people away, right up until the Coast Guard comes and orders us to stop. Scott is dead. My cell phone is dead. My mother must think me dead. So it goes. I pick up the papers that have drifted down on the boat and have become plastered there, these relics from great buildings that no longer stand. The first one I grab is an insurance document. Listen: What I tell you here is true. The first line on the first page I pick up, it begins: In the event of damage to the building… So it goes.

It’s always okay to admit when you don’t know something. If you couldn’t do this, you would never truly know anything.

We are all of us — everywhere and at all times — mere visitors.