If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it’s because I'm also a realist. - Robert Charles Wilson

Here was the real horror, Degrandpre thought, this breaking of barriers. Civilization, after all, was the making of divisions, of walls and fences to parse the chaotic wild into ordered cells of human imagination. Wilderness invades the garden and reason is overthrown.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

The village muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Diane ignored the sound.