Matt

“But that’s where the bad news comes in. Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you got here, and now it’s pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we’ve had to cut back. Big-time. We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it’s been going on for a while now.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Being Ymor’s right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“Scars mean we survived something, even when the wounds still hurt.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Summer Children

“When everything is spiraling out of control, no one can dig in and hold steady. Not really. They lash out, desperate to grab onto anything. They lash out.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Vanishing Season