“Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture.”

“the pre-friday world of school, cell phones, and refrigerators dissolved into this post-friday world of ash, darkness, and hunger.”

“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history.”

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”

“I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed”

“A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side.”

“I both laid and sucked eggs? That didn't make sense.”