Earth Abides

by George R. Stewart

Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

“The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way.”

.Bridget, the red setter, shivered and trembled, and now and then howled faintly with a howl that was scarcely more than a moan; her gentle spirit found no will to live in a world without master or mistress to love.

like all bridges, it was a symbol of unity and security.

At the same time he was more than a mere reader in that he knew also the means of research through books, and thus possessed a powerful tool for reconstruction.

Thereupon he resolved that if he was to live at all he would live without fear.

“There are no atheists in fox holes,”

To think of that as something bad, was merely to think in terms of what had once been and no longer existed.