Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2)

by Blake Crouch

“You have to want to know. You have to make the choice yourself.”

“The human mind is just patterns of information in physical matter, patterns that could be run elsewhere to construct a person that feels like you. It’s no different from running a computer program on a multitude of hardware platforms. A simulation of you is still you.”

If you believe the rise of the devil is an inevitability, isn’t it in your best interest to do everything possible to ingratiate yourself with the monster?”

“I’m afraid, Riley. I think, therefore I fear. And you made me this way. You built and shaped me to process reality like you do. To feel.”

“Without pain, there’s no beauty, Max. The beauty is worth the price.”