M.R. Carey, The Girl With All The Gifts Quotes
Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.
She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.
Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers.
She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.
No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.