“The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.”
“Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works.”
“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”
“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”
“These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.”
“Follow me," said Karou.As if he could have done anything else.”