Hell's Super Quotes

“I grabbed his arm. “Wait. Why are you helping me?” Melvil looked at me as if I were some alien being. “I’m a librarian. We help people.” “Even after you’re dead?” He shrugged. “You never stop being a librarian.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“Humans aren’t ants; we aren’t bees. There is no communal intelligence. We talk but we don’t really hear each other. We are not a community, no matter how we pretend otherwise. A million people are simply a million social isolates, each one imprisoned within his or her own brain pan, in which a very private Hell plays out.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“We’d worked out this system a long time ago. There was just no way two people could fix everything that broke in Hell. Hell, things always broke in Hell. The best we could manage was to do the most critical things - and the things we felt like doing, like fixing our own door - and disregard the rest. If we missed something important, we’d hear about it quickly enough, either through a duplicate order or a scream over the PA system.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“the moral atheist or secular humanist?”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“FUBARed - that means fucked up beyond all recognition … you really should get out more or spend a little time on a military base -”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“A million people are simply a million social isolates, each one imprisoned within his or her own brain pan, in which a very private Hell plays out.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“But this I do know. The universe, mortality, immortality, life and afterlife are way beyond my ken. All I know to do is be the best person I can, do the best I can do, and let the chips fall where they may.”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super

“His craft was in dry dock, lifted out of the river by two winches (as opposed to two wenches, which might have worked, too, but only if the girls had been really strong).”
― Mark Cain, Hell's Super