The End is Nigh (The Apocalypse Triptych, #1)

by John Joseph Adams

Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning. The End is Nigh is about the match.

People don’t run around screaming; we’ve been making communities for hundreds of years. Mostly in disaster, we pitch in, clean up, figure out how to muddle through.”

I disliked crowds of people, but then I also hated being alone—my life was a slow bleed on the knife edge between the two.

Dogs were way smarter than Californians.