“I think i might even have preferred being the one gone and forgotten, rather than the one left behind without so much as memories"..”

“So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.”

“I myself prefer being called Cassie. It's so much friendlier and less pretentious than Cassandra, don't you think? ... I think both fit you right fine. One is elegant and graceful, the other fun and lively.”

“What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.”

“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”

“Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.”