The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge -

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he’d seen a lot of action movies.