She didn’t look at Willa but out at the graves. “People can change their minds about little things, but on the big ones they’d rather die first. A used-up planet scares the piss out of them, after they spent their whole lives thinking the cupboard would never go bare. No offense, Mom, but you’re kind of not that different from Papu. You want a nice house that’s all your own, you want your kids to have more than you did.” “I’m human, Tig. We live, we consume. I think that’s just how we have to be.” “Of course you think that. When everybody around you thinks the same way, you can’t even see what
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