Everything in her life had come undone as quickly as rope slipping over a cliff's edge.

Technology has uncovered our world. Hardly a moment goes unrecorded, analytics engines trail our every move, giving us a confidence in the world around us beyond the ken of anyone who lived before us. Everything they knew, we know, the moment we might need to know it.

Normal society flowed. People went to work, went to school programs, raised families, but over here where no one was looking, there was awfulness with children trapped in it, slowly sinking.

There are dangerous people ready to pull the seams out of everything you've stitched together, and they can pull apart faster than you can hold.

Memory is the great torturer.

Isolation's not so bad, he thought, depending on the company.

If all you know in life is that you are loved, you can press through anything.

Every device is the product of mistakes, hundreds or thousands of previous mistakes. You see the results, but you do not see the mistakes.

No living creature lives without mistakes.