“Maybe the end of the world was bound to happen after all.”

“I was desensitized to all the pain, even though essentially it was always all around me.”

“I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.”

“Sometimes, your pet picks you.”

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

“For the rest of my existence, if I lived to see the end of this world, there would never be another Ezekiel Crosse. There would never be another soul as bright as his. And that both terrified me and made me savagely - and maybe selfishly - determined to keep him. Zeke was mine now. Forever.”

“Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.”