“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”

“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.”

“In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.”

“Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness.”

“In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street.”

“It's time to keep living. It's time to reenlist.”

“In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television.Spirits spoke to people through what they called the radio.”