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101 " De nem így van ez mindennel? Ha valami a múltba vész, már nem is tűnik valóságosnak. Egy idő után nem marad belőle más, csak néhány üres szófordulat. "
― Karen Thompson Walker , The Age of Miracles
102 " It was like a haunting: two dimensions of time occupying a single space. "
103 " the day we passed the wheat point. Now it was official: Wheat could no longer grow on this planet without "
104 " It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There’s a certain boldness to inaction. "
105 " Certain clock nights still coincided with the dark, but perfect alignment was rare. Whenever a lightless night did roll around, we slept as much as we could. But it was never enough. We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour but unable to store the rain. "
106 " The bruise would fade. The cut would heal. Every bone in her body was intact. With the help of an MRI, the doctors had searched her brain for hidden damage and found none. But that machine could not, of course, search her mind. "
107 " Manchmal benötigen die traurigsten Geschichten die wenigsten Worte. "
108 " Something was happening to the earth’s magnetic field. "
109 " I spent that whole day sitting on the carpet only a few feet from the television with my parents. I still remember how it felt to live through those hours. It was almost physical: the need to know whatever there was to know. "
110 " By noon on that first day, the networks had run out of new information. Drained of every fresh fact, they went right on reporting anyway, chewing and rechewing the same small chunks of news. It didn’t matter, we were mesmerized. "
111 " One by one, the minutes poured in—and even a trickle, as we have come to understand, can eventually add up to a flood. "
112 " És ez az egyetlen tény újabb tényekre világított rá: például hogy a szerelem elmúlik, az emberek becsapják egymást, hogy az idő nem áll meg, a korszakok lezárulnak. "
113 " This was the first of the solar superstorms, triggered "
114 " Pedig ekkor már tudnom kellett volna, hogy sosem azok a katasztrófák következnek be, amiket előre lát az ember. Hanem azok, amelyekre egyáltalán nem számít. "
115 " I bet things will turn out okay,” I said, gripped by an urge to say some cheerful thing—it rose up from my throat like a cough. “I bet it will be fine. "
116 " Bizonyos dolgokat, amit gyerekként él át az ember, utána egész életében magával hurcol. "
117 " Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown "
118 " I watched the slight movement of his eyelids as he dreamed. It wasn’t enough just to be near him. I wished I could see what he was dreaming right then. I would have traveled even there with him. "
119 " We should look ahead, she says, to the time that’s left. But the past is long, and the future is short. "
120 " Time moved differently for us that spring: A string of long afternoons was as good as a year. "