“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history -- to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.”

“The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

“All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.”

“SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words?IM: So, so, so, so, so, so, so awesome.”

“I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”

“Quod tu es, eqo fui, quod ego sum, tu eris.What you are, I once was.What I am, you will become.”

“Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”