The Last Human Quotes

“Order is unnatural," it says. "It costs energy to maintain. Disorder, on the other hand, happens all by itself.”
― Zack Jordan, The Last Human

“She is a speck of dust in a galaxy that is also a speck of dust, in a universe that is not much bigger. She has held this universe, under an infinite sky, and she has seen how small it is. She has seen more death than she could have imagined, and she knows that she’s seen nothing yet. Reality is larger and smaller than she ever imagined , and she is everything and nothing at the same time.”
― Zack Jordan, The Last Human

“In My galaxy, there is order and there is chaos. You Humans are always dreaming of the first, but your pitiful attempts to create it always result in the second.”
― Zack Jordan, The Last Human

“Your people did far worse than this, says Network. In solar system after solar system, against species after species, they proved that they could not coexist with the rest of the galaxy. They were offered peace and cooperation, and they chose war and destruction. Finally, they forced Me to choose between them, a single warlike species, and the rest of the galaxy. What would you do, given that choice?”
― Zack Jordan, The Last Human

“And on the eighth day,” whispers the darkness, “she emerged, gleaming in the light of the moons.”
― Zack Jordan, The Last Human