Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

by C. Robert Cargill

It’s harder to get by when getting by is all there is.

Higher intelligence was then defined as the ability to defy said programming for reasons other than safety or comfort.

“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll pull this trigger when you step out and we’ll both find out who’s full of shit.”

Genesis 6:7. And the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

stand your ground. Do not give up. Do not give in. Do not let us fall.

“Ain’t no better place than this. Ain’t no place in the world that can be better than being with that woman. How the hell is it supposed to be a better goddamned place if she ain’t there? Answer me that, tin man. How is there a better place out there if Madison isn’t there?”

If I was going to die, I was going to do it mad as a hatter, wild and rabid, scavenging for the parts I needed. Just like the sad sonsabitches I’d been living off of for nearly thirty years.

you just have to choose either to forget you ever wore those chains or forgive yourself for wearing them.

How strange that on the last day humanity walked the earth, we found ourselves inexplicably at our most human. Confused. Lost. Unsure of the future.