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    Rick Yancey
    “You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, choices, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    Rick Yancey
    “We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
    tags: alien, apocalypse, cassie, death, fiction, horror, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, survival, young-adult
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    Czesław Miłosz
    “Forget the suffering
    You caused others.
    Forget the suffering
    Others caused you.
    The waters run and run,
    Springs sparkle and are done,
    You walk the earth you are forgetting.

    Sometimes you hear a distant refrain.
    What does it mean, you ask, who is singing?
    A childlike sun grows warm.
    A grandson and a great-grandson are born.
    You are led by the hand once again.

    The names of the rivers remain with you.
    How endless those rivers seem!
    Your fields lie fallow,
    The city towers are not as they were.
    You stand at the threshold mute.”
    ― Czesław Miłosz
    tags: dhammapada, post-apocalyptic
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    Ben Marcus
    “Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.
    I forget who said it and I no longer care.”
    ― Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
    tags: morality, post-apocalyptic, societal-breakdown, solitude
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  • #5
    E.A. Lake
    “Surrounded by what was once everything we could ever need, we now saw just how little we all possessed.”
    ― E.A. Lake, WWIV: In the Beginning
    tags: dystopian, post-apocalyptic
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    Logan Keys
    “People soon forgot about the beautiful places that once existed. But they didn't care. They were too busy dying.”
    ― Logan Keys
    tags: post-apocalyptic
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  • #7
    “Be the cockroach”
    ― Amber Kizer, A Matter of Days
    tags: apocalyptic-fiction, post-apocalyptic, survival
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    Jenny Lynne
    “... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.”
    ― Jenny Lynne, Above the Sky
    tags: choices, dystopian, dystopian-fiction, new-adult, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, science-fiction, secret, teen-fiction, young-adult
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    Tessa Maurer
    “Then why are you still here?” I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.
    “Masochism.”
    “I don’t know what that means.”
    “It means I like my own pain.”
    “That doesn’t make sense.”
    “I’m human. You think we ever make sense?”
    ― Tessa Maurer, The Toxic Children
    tags: fantasy, fantasy-fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, short-stories
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  • #10
    “Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, post-apocalyptic, rain, science-fiction, western
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  • #11
    “We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, death, dystopian-fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, western
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  • #12
    “If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, poor, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, violence, western
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  • #13
    “You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, sore-loser, western
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    Katherine McIntyre
    “My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.”
    ― Katherine McIntyre, Snatched
    tags: dystopian, humankind, new, post-apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, trust
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  • #15
    “Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn’t be worse than this one, though.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, hell, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, western
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    K.E. Douglas
    “Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here”
    ― K.E. Douglas
    tags: post-apocalyptic, science-fiction
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    Leot Felton
    “This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.”
    ― Leot Felton, The After
    tags: dystopia, post-apocalyptic, social-science-fiction, young-adult
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  • #18
    Cassandra Giovanni
    “Make me a weapon,” I whispered as he pulled away. “Make it so I never have to dream about this again—make it so we can have this…forever.”
    ― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons
    tags: forbidden-love, forever, love, post-apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, romance, romantic, sexy, weapon
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  • #19
    “Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, humanity, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, war, western
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  • #20
    “As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, western
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  • #21
    “A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.”
    ― Michael Monroe, Afterlife
    tags: afterlife, dystopian-fiction, friendship, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, western
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  • #22
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights
    tags: apocalypse, silence
    86 likes



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