Revelations Quotes

“But all they are asking is that we learn a little humility, a little respect for what we have.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

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― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“Generations from now, Emily wondered, should their tiny group of humanity manage to survive and thrive and begin to explore this world again, how would this place look to them? This strange new world would be their new normal; her world, the old world that had existed for thousands of years only to disappear in the space of eight hours, would be the alien one to them. A place of legends. It would be a distant racial memory of greatness, passed down from generation to generation, pieces of reality disappearing with every new voice that carried the story onward. She, and the other survivors, would become fable. “Look,”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“Survivors are always the ones that make the hardest choices.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“We try to make the best decision we can when we’re faced with a shitty choice.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“Everything in this new world seemed tough, with an almost preternatural desire to live, expand, grow; desires that were matched by an innate ability to achieve those goals.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“People are like roaches, we have a way of surviving even the worst of situations.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“latent power. As the machine grew distant, so the sound of its pounding mechanical legs faded only to be suddenly replaced by a louder, much more chaotic sound. The noise was coming from somewhere behind them, Emily realized. She”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“It’s not the fall that kills you, Emily thought, remembering one of her father’s favorite aphorisms, it’s the sudden stop at the end.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“It was always a possibility, I suppose,” Jacob continued. “I mean, we’ve talked about it for years as a possibility for colonizing Mars and eventually other planets, but we are…were…nowhere near it as a possibility technologically. And this, this is light-years beyond how we theorized we could do it.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations

“But wasn’t that what fear was, at its essence? A direct conduit to the inner child, through all the armor and fortifications that we build as adults. Fear always managed to find that quivering child hiding in the center of every human, surrounded by darkness and cowering in the slowly dimming light of an exhausted candle.”
― Paul Antony Jones, Revelations