This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her. - Hugh Howey

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

How long?” Juliette laughed and shook her head. She finished a final adjustment and turned to face them with her arms crossed. “It could happen right now. It could happen a hundred years from now. The point is: it’s going to happen, and it’s entirely preventable. The goal shouldn’t be to keep this place humming along for our lifetimes” — she looked pointedly at Jahns — “or our current term. If the goal ain’t forever, we should pack our bags right now.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.