Day One Quotes

“The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like you with a weekly lineup of talented authors, poets, and artists that we believe you will love. And if we can identify some of the next generation of literary stars, and cultivate an appreciation for transformative poetry and fiction, then frankly we will sleep better at night.”
― Carmen Johnson

“But every tomorrow has led to today— to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“What they say about lawyers being useless isn’t entirely true.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.”
― Jennifer Arnett

“John spent the morning rebuilding his SOS sign on the beach. He says that he saw a commercial airliner pass over. I’m not sure if the trying circumstances have made him delusional, or if the plane was too high to see his small sign. I think he saw what he wanted to see.”
― Jennifer Arnett

“He needs a purpose, even if it kills him.”
― Jennifer Arnett

“I felt civilized.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“Maybe they died of disease or lived on this island into old age, but no matter which, someone was the last man standing.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“I can’t help but imagine what that would be like—to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see—there is no crueler hand of fate.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We are not very skilled at survival without clothing or tools. Our feet are soft, our skin is easily cooled, and our stomachs are too weak to drink water straight from a stream. We must create in order to survive. We build cities, aqueducts, and shields, for we must in order to have an edge over the beasts of the field. And so, wherever humans have tread their covered feet, their path never vanishes without a trace.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“I once watched a small hermit crab crawl out of its shell and into a larger one nearby. Maybe we are no different. There were those before us and there will be some after us. All we can do is cultivate what is given to us. Maybe our lot in this life is to leave our shells better than when we found them so that the next soul will flourish here.”
― Jennifer Arnett, Day One: A Novella

“David hadn’t realized it, yet, but Day One of the Zombie Apocalypse had begun.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel