14 Quotes by Meg Elison

It’s not even dark outside yet, but I am done with the day. I lie there trying to hold it together until the day is done with me.

When the sirens quit, the rules gave out. Some people had been waiting their whole lives to live lawlessly, and they were the first to take to the streets. Some people knew what would happen; they knew better than to open their doors when they heard cries of help. Other’s didn’t. What disease cannot do, people accomplish with astonishing ease.

There is no argument to be had with faith.

This gun is blank and empty, and you can fill the cylinder with anything at all. You can pack it with dirt or fill it with bullets. You can change the world forever, depending on where you point it. You can leave behind terror or justice. You can be as important as the Unnamed, or as lost as any of the men she put down with it. You hear?” Etta.

Find some people, wish you were alone. Live alone, wish for people.