Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

by Chuck Wendig

the Beforetimes

This was a more peculiar thing, like one of those complicated emotions only the Germans had a word for.

Well, Benji didn’t hate this new world.

the world was healing in a way it couldn’t have, had White Mask not ravaged the world.

BY FLENSING A PORTION OF THE POPULATION, I SAVED THE WORLD.

Angry leaf juice.”

It was a brute force attack on information itself, an assault on facts and logic and expertise.

And you made them so willing to forgo their own rights because if they got something like healthcare or education, then so did Those People, and better to deny other people things instead of having to share it with Them.

I hate that this is Trumps playbook, and I hate that it worked.

made a snuff film,” Paul Gregory said. “In IMAX.”

Please God let that be Spielberg

Lady products,

"lady products" . Because even in a future apocalypse rich old white men can't grasp the concept of sanitary products as necessities of living. Well played, Wendig.

what if you could go back in time and kill Baby Hitler. Right? That’s the ethical twist. If you went back and killed the baby, you’d undo so much of the pain that would come. “But nobody ever asks: Would you go back in time and raise the child as your own? Would you be kind where others were not? Would you encourage his art instead of destroying it? Would you, when you saw signs of mental illness, care for him and get him the help he needed to see his way through instead of letting it burn him up like a wildfire? I’m not saying we should have sympathy for Hitler the man, he deserved what he got in the end. It’s just, the question always assumes

began life as the monster he would eventually become, that it was his inevitable destiny to be the malignant, genocidal narcissist that he was, and that the only answer for that would be to smother him in his crib.”

big sky, tall mountains, an awkward bird watching you dump.

you not been down there?

This was a softer, kinder Mad Max world.