“Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?”
“No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.”
“It was obvious why humans weren’t supposed to know when they were going to die. They became basket cases.”
“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”
“Derek was telling her something about a hand in a box. It was a dead hand. Why the hell did he have to bring it to me right this second? Was it going anywhere?”
“But I had made contact with a different planet from the one my parents or sister lived on. It was a planet where an act of violence changed your life.”