The universe wasn’t just stranger than you knew, it was stranger than you could know. - James S. A. Corey

How many millions of times had people had this exact conversation before? How many wars had put two people together for a moment and then washed them apart? There had to be a tradition of it. A secret history of vulnerability and want and all the things that sex promised and only occasionally delivered. They were just one more couple among all the countless others. It only hurt this time because it was them.

In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.

Thing about civilization, it’s what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.