Symbiont (Parasitology, #2)

by Mira Grant

Curiosity is what it looks like when you’re in love with the world.”

I am romantically interested in you despite my better judgment,

That’s the danger of genius. One way or another, it’s going to destroy the world.

It would be terrible to have an entire species with bellies full of mingled love and hate, anger and fear, walking around and thinking that they controlled the world.

Every human was the result of social and cultural recombination, picking up a turn of phrase here, an idea or a preconception there, the same way bacteria picked up and traded genes. Nothing was purely its own self. Nothing would ever want to be.

Thank you for sailing with Oceanic Apocalypse: when the world ends, we get you there anyway.”