Todd Quotes

“Everyone dies, Brenda told him in a dream. Nothing lasts. You'll die, Todd will die, the planet will die, eventually the whole galaxy will die. Everything in the universe is spinning away from everything else; everything growing colder and more still as the eons pass. Death is the universal constant. Everyone dies, and nothing matters.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“they stare into the distance, at that rising tide of blackness. Already, it is halfway to the sun. As”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“does any story actually end well? Even the happy endings are just early ones. They”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“What happened to the Blurs? In darkness this complete, they should be everywhere.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“Snow is the planet's water exposed to the deadly, infinite cold of space. Nothing”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“he sees the giant worm in the sky. It is slithering just below the clouds a few miles to the east, a”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“now the nightmare's onslaught is constant: miles of empty cars, empty houses, empty shoes. A”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“looks past the bars and wonders which of them is actually imprisoned.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“A good day for fishing or yard work. In other words, a bitter joke.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“You only lose everything if you throw it away.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“As long as they named them, they were in control of them.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“Empathy's not a survival skill.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“We're the only two left. The world suddenly felt even heavier. Alan”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“We are two people, he thought, alone on the planet, talking to ourselves.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“the only meaning things have is the meaning we give them.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“Get out of the house, something told him. There is something here.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“I don't know how far everyone disappeared, but it can't have been the whole world.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“He dreamt of the Earth: a ball of rock hurtling around a naked fire.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“it was here: the catastrophic failure of all life on Earth. Game over, man.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“the stacks of his stillborn ideas to”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd

“He dreamt of the Earth: a ball of rock hurtling around a naked fire. Four and a half billion years old, the product of a grand melee of smashing dust, gas, and boulders, it was bombarded on all sides by lethal radiation and surrounded by an infinite expanse of lethal, frozen vacuum. A fragile sheen of gas and some lucky magnetism were the only things that kept it from succumbing to the black. Its core was as hot as the surface of the sun. Its crust, nearly 4,000 miles removed, was where his entire species lived: ants swarming on a chunk of decaying bread. Every nation, every religion, every story and every life had happened there, suspended precariously between the lethal darkness of space and the crushing heat of the Earth's interior.”
― Adam J. Nicolai, Todd