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21 " Then, we waited. Waited for the noise to end. Waited for the house to fall on our heads. Waited for something, anything to change. "
― Mike Mullin , Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
22 " A night spent spooning with your girlfriend isn't nearly so exciting when your uncle is curled up against your other side. "
― Mike Mullin , Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2)
23 " That whiff of smoke was enough to transform my sithere-trembling terror into get-the-hell-out-of-here terror. "
24 " I hate to disappoint, but I just lay there, curled in a ball, shaking in pure terror. "
25 " The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history. "
26 " Green hills wash sunlight blue. "
27 " When I was eleven or twelve, we had this real old guy as a Sunday school teacher. Mom said he'd been in some war: Iraq, Vietnam … I forget. Anyway, almost every class he'd say, "There are no atheists in foxholes, kids." At the time, it was just weird. What did we know about either atheists or foxholes? Nothing. But I sort of understood it now. "
28 " When they taught common sense in kindergarten, you were in the timeout corner, weren’t you? "
― Mike Mullin , Darla's Story (Ashfall, #0.5)
29 " I'd never heard any noise quite so welcome as the click that a shotgun made when it wasn't killing me. "
30 " We were tired, hungry, and wrapped in multiple layers of filthy winter clothing. None of that mattered to me; I was in love. I thought Darla was, too--but maybe with the bulldozer. "
― Mike Mullin
31 " I both laid and sucked eggs? That didn't make sense. "
32 " I'd spent almost every minute with Darla for the last five weeks; being separated was … uncomfortable. It felt a bit like being naked in a room full of clothed people. "
33 " For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn’t taken our humanity. No, we’d given that up on our own. "
34 " Darla had been doing something by the fire. Now she returned and began stripping the blanket off me. I grabbed it before she could pull it away from my groin, to preserve my modesty. "Let go. There's nothing there I haven't seen. Who do you think undressed you, anyway? And honestly, I've seen better equipment on goats. "
35 " Roll over. "
36 " When I first saw you in your barn, I thought you were an angel. "
37 " Since we left Worthington. "
38 " It’s hard to fall asleep when Zeus is machine-gunning thunder at you. "
39 " Sure thing, cuz. "
40 " I think generosity makes you horny. "